Florence Nightingale.

  • Elmer Belt
Date:
1945
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.

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    dpawliag Sir Henry out cm geology, enchsrmed him by the boldneBs and breadth of her views, which were not coramon then. She acoidentsUy proceeded into regions of Latin end Greek and then our geologist hed to get out of it. She was fresh fraaa Egypt end begaii talking with W. Smythe about the inatrip- ticais where he thought he could do pretty wellj hut when ahe began quoting Lepaiua irtilch she bad been studying in the cariginel he ims in the ssjae case rs Sir Henry. When the lad^sa left the rooa Sir Henry said to Smythe,'A capital youaag lEidy that, if she hadn't floored me with her L&tln and Ck'eek.* riot' eflBfi, JU''flt;gfit3?-^aad.4MP41Mfflat7 wae attraettTe~te--everyene. It wpb the great Germen scientist^ Barcaa van Bunsen, who, as a result of e conversation. with her on the study of medicine and sanitary subjects, sent her the aimusl report of Fliedner's Institution for Deaconesses st SJaiserwerth with its hospitfil, school and penitentlpry^so aatiafying to her inspircitioii that ahe wrote after visiting it, The thoughts and feelings that I have now, I can rwBKEber since I was six years old. The first thou^t I can remember end the last with nursing work and in the absence of this educaticai work, but more the education of the bad then of the young. All of the lines of her life drew to the one conclusion. Trevelling in BoDse at the fge of 27 her aind was filled with plena for a Bjsiserwerth at hciae. There in Ecaae she met Sidney Herbert and hie young wife - a wealthy philanthropic pair, near neighbors at home in Barbyahire. Florence's conTeraatlcai turned to her favorite field - the working people end their need of care in health ar^d illneBs. It is b coincidence. Miss Hightingale, said Sir Herbert, that we should have followed unknowir^gly the same line of thou^t, for Sidney Herbert bhA. hlw wife had spent that Snmasr devising plana for « convaleacent hcane to be operated under their direction in England. Sidney Herbert's broad Intel-
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