To her [Florence Nightingale]
To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown. Elizabeth Blackwell
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To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown. Elizabeth Blackwell
People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much. Franny Billingsley
Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale
I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it’s a blowlamp. Denis Healey
For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness. David … Read more