Florence Nightingale was an English nurse who single-handedly revolutionized nursing practices, sanitation in hospitals and public healthbin the 19th century. When war broke out in the Crimea, Nightingale volunteered for duty, leaving with 38 nurses in her charge. She organized the barracks hospital after the Battle of Inkerman, and by introducing discipline and hygiene to hospital she managed to reduce the death toll. When she returned to England in 1856, she was rewarded with a fund of £50,000 for training nurses.
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Florence Nightingale was known as the 'Lady with Lamp' because of the light she carried at night. She would walk through the hospital corridors, checking or her patients.
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