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Florence Nightingale

Notes, letters and sketches document the lasting impact, through hygiene and data-driven reform, of Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) on healthcare worldwide.

Field of work
Delivery of Health Care

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10 images from works
  • A contribution to the sanitary history of the British army during the late war with Russia.
  • Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army : founded chiefly on the experience of the late war / by Florence Nightingale ; presented by request to the Secretary of State for War.
  • A contribution to the sanitary history of the British army during the late war with Russia.
  • Organization of nursing : an account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing / by a member of the committee of the Home and Training School ; with an introduction and notes by Florence Nightingale.
  • A contribution to the sanitary history of the British army during the late war with Russia.
  • Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army : founded chiefly on the experience of the late war / by Florence Nightingale ; presented by request to the Secretary of State for War.
  • Life or death in India : a paper read at the meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Norwich, 1873 / [by Florence Nightingale] ; with an appendix on life or death by irrigation, 1874.
  • Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army : founded chiefly on the experience of the late war / by Florence Nightingale ; presented by request to the Secretary of State for War.
  • Lea Hurst, home of Florence Nightingale's family in Derbyshire. Lithograph.
  • An official floor plan and transverse section with scale for new military hospitals, c. 1862. Wood engraving after D. Galton.

Images featuring Florence Nightingale

200 images from works
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • A woman's example: and a nation's work : A tribute to Florence Nightingale / [Frederick Milnes Edge].
  • A woman's example: and a nation's work : A tribute to Florence Nightingale / [Frederick Milnes Edge].
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and Mr Bracebridge at Cathcart's Hill burial ground. Tinted lithograph after W. Simpson.
  • Florence Nightingale. Reproduction of wood engraving, 1872, after T. Cole after Goodman, 1858.
  • Florence Nightingale. Coloured lithograph.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
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    Over ziekenverpleging / Uit het engelsch vertaald door Busken Huet.

    Florence Nightingale | Date: 1863
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    Army sanitary administration and its reform under the late Lord Herbert / by Florence Nightingale.

    Florence Nightingale | Date: [1862?]
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    Subsidiary notes as to the introduction of female nursing into military hospitals in peace and war.

    Florence Nightingale | Date: 1858
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    Notes on nursing : what it is, and what it is not.

    Florence Nightingale | Date: 1859
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    Des soins a donner aux malades : ce qu'il faut faire ce qu'il faut éviter.

    Florence Nightingale | Date: 1862
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Frequent collaborators

University of California Libraries
King's College London
St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School. Library

Related topics

Nurses
History, 19th Century
Nursing
History of Nursing
Crimean War
Hospitals, Military
Hospitals
England
United Kingdom

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