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Near Piccadilly Circus on
Waterloo Place in the heart of
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London stands the Crimean War
Memorial. It was built in 1861
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and features Honor with
outstretched arms standing above
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the statues of three guardsmen
cast in bronze from captured
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captured Russian canons. Carved
in the stonework on the side are
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the names of three famous
Crimean battles: Alma, Inkerman
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and Sevastopol. The Crimean
War marked a turning point in
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history. It introduced
major changes in society and war
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operations. The war began
over a seemingly minor and
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insignificant religious dispute.
For years orthodox Christians
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supported by Russia and Roman
Catholics backed by France had
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squabbled over access to the
holy sites in Jerusalem and the
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middle east under the control of
the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Both
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France and Russia wanted to take
charge of these sacred sites
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and be the defender of the
Ottoman Christians. The losses
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on all sides were immense.
At least three-quarters of a
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million soldiers died, most
through illness and disease away
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from the battlefield. The French
lost around 100,000 men, the
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British about 20,000 and
the Russians well over half a
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million From the muddled chaotic
catastrophe of the Crimean war
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one person emerged famous alone.
Not a general, not a soldier,
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but a woman. Her statue stands
as part of the Crimean War
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Memorial alongside the three
guardsmen. Her name, Florence
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Nightingale. This is her
story. It will encourage you and
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inspire you and maybe Florence
Nightingale brings a message for
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us today.
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St. Thomas' is one of the oldest
hospitals in London, England.
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It's situated along the Thames
in Southward near London Bridge.
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St. Thomas' Hospital has been
providing relief to the sick and
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needy for over 900
years. Surgery was an extremely
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painful undertaking back then
because there was no anesthesia
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and it was risky because a
barber performed it. And to make
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matters worse, there were no
antiseptics. The old operating
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theatre of St. Thomas' Hospital
provides a chilling reminder
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of the realities of
surgery before anesthesia
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and antiseptics.
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It was built in 1822 in
the attic of 300-year-old St.
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Thomas' Church. It's the oldest
surviving operating theatre in
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Europe. And the equipment was
to say the least basic and scary
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including saws and hammers. So
much so that the patients were
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usually blindfolded
before entering the room so they
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couldn't see the terrifying
surgical equipment. But one of
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the biggest problems associated
with surgery back then and
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hospitals in general was
the lack of professional and
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properly trained nurses. One
of the main differences between
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hospitals then and now are
nurses and never is this more
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clearly seen than when
you compare this old operating
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theatre and hospital with the
new St. Thomas' Hospital. Where
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would we be without nurses. Most
of us arrived on planet earth
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with their help. A nurse's face
was one of the first we saw and
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we've always retained a sense
of respect and admiration for
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nurses. In fact in survey after
survey, nursing comes up as the
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most trusted health care
profession of all. And if you or
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a loved one has spent time
in a hospital you'll certainly
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understand why. Nurses are
teachers, advocates, caregivers,
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supporters and innovators. They
are usually the ones who are
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there for our first breath and
our last breath. Their presence
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and care not only heals
and comforts but also genuinely
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transforms lives. Nurses give
up time that the rest of us take
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for granted, weekends, nights
and family time to work through
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grueling shift nurse rosters
selflessly committed to their
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patients. And they do it because
they really do care. As the
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saying goes, care for one person
that's love, care for 100 people
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that's nursing. Nurses make
a difference. Too often we take
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nurses for granted and we forget
that not too long ago nursing as
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we know it didn't exist at
all in hospitals and operating
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theatres like this. Those were
dark days indeed. And never was
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more starkly evident than during
the Crimean War. Let me take you
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there. In the 19th century the
great nations of Europe lined up
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against Russia. It was
really just another power grab
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ostensibly over religion. Who
should control the sacred sites
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in Jerusalem and the middle
east. In the autumn of 1854, the
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allies, the English, French
and Turks invaded the Crimean
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peninsula. After securing a
victory at the Battle of Alma
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they went on to attack the vital
Russian naval hub at Sevastopol.
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Soldiers on both sides
were forced to battle through a
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brutal Russian winter under
constant artillery bombardment.
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Many soldiers fell victim
to what was then called trench
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madness and later shellshock.
It would eventually take 11
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months before a French assault
forced the Russians to evacuate
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Sevastopol. A year later
after more sporadic fighting the
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Russians finally admitted defeat
The Crimean War was hugely
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significant for a number of
important reasons. The human
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cost of the war was immense,
20,000 British, 100,000 French
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and well over half a million
Russians died. The startling
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thing is that many of them
didn't die in battle. Most of
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them actually died
of disease and neglect.
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Florence Nightingale was born
into a rich, upper class British
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family in 1820. She was named
Florence after the city of her
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birth in Italy. And here's
a piece of trivia. The name
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Florence had never been a
woman's name before but it
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became popular as a result
of her impact on the world. What
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Florence went on to achieve
in her life is all the more
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impressive when you consider how
socially restrained women were
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in Victorian England. Women of
Nightingale's high social class
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didn't attend university or have
professional careers. Instead
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their purpose in life was
to marry and bear children. But
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Florence's father believed
women should be educated and he
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personally taught her Italian,
Latin, Greek, philosophy,
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history and most
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unusual of all for
women of the time, writing and
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mathematics. Florence grew
to be a tall and pretty girl.
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Their life included many
parties, much travel on the
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continent. At the age of 16 two
young men fell head over heels
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in love with her and proposed
marriage. She liked them both
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but she wasn't ready to marry.
The following year a strange
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thing happened to her. She
didn't consider herself to be
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particularly religious but on
February the 7th 1837 at the age
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17 she felt that God spoke
to her and called her to some
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future service. She wondered
about what this might be and
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from that moment her life was
changed for good. Young Florence
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stopped the constant socializing
and the frivolous parties and
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started to look for
opportunities to serve others.
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She wanted to prepare herself
for whatever God was calling her
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to do. Florence started spending
all her spare time visiting the
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poor in their cottages on the
family estate and bringing food
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and medicine to the people
who lived there. Florence was
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beginning to wonder whether
helping the sick was what God
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wanted her to do. One day a
doctor and his wife visited the
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family home and Florence asked
the doctor whether he thought
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it unsuitable and unbecoming for
a young English woman to devote
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herself to works of charity in
hospitals and elsewhere like the
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nuns. The doctor answered that
it would indeed be considered
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highly unsuitable but he still
told her that she should follow
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her inspiration and so Florence
did just that. She decided to go
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and get some hands on experience
and training at a hospital run
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by a family friend. Florence's
parents were shocked and
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horrified. This was entirely
inappropriate for an upper class
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woman. Hospitals in England back
then were places of degradation
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and filth. In Victorian England
the stench in hospitals was so
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bad that it was normal for
nurses to arrive drunk for work
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so they could get through the
day. But Florence was determined
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Her stubbornness in addition to
her intellect was one of her key
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attributes. She got up before
dawn every morning to do her
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own study by the light of an oil
lamp. And then she decided to go
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to Germany to get practical
experience. When Florence
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returned from Germany her
parents tried to get her to
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settle down decently. But
they were confused and annoyed
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when Florence turned down
yet another offer of marriage.
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Florence refused to consider
a normal life. Instead she
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she traveled to Paris to serve
in a hospital run by nuns. In
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due course back in England the
institution for the care of sick
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gentlewomen in distressed
circumstances needed a
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superintendent and Florence
was ideal for the job. So she
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returned to England. It was then
in 1853 that the Crimean War
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erupted. The decision to go to
war was made with enthusiastic
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support from the British public.
Queen Victoria wrote to the
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king of Belgium, the war is
popular beyond belief. At the
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time English military hospitals
were a disgrace. Any wounded men
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sent there had almost no chance
of recovering. To end up in a
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military hospital was virtually
a death sentence. But English
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and French have always been
great rivals and when reports
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came back from the war that the
French took better care of their
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wounded, the English government
was stung into action. Sydney
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Herbert, the secretary of war,
created a new official position
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of superintendent of nursing
for the military hospitals in
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Turkey and then set about trying
to search through all of England
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to find the best qualified
person to fill the position.
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And the best person he could
find was a young woman, Florence
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Nightingale. She was to go
to the Crimea with the nurses of
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her choice and with
total authority over nursing
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in the hospitals.
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Before this no woman had ever
entered a military hospital.
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But even then Miss Nightingale's
reputation was already such that
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her appointment was applauded
by the public. Florence
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carefully selected the women
to travel with her to Turkey,
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40 in all. What they found when
they arrived in Turkey was a
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total disaster. It was no wonder
that so few of the wounded
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English soldiers ever made
it back home. They found moldy
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bread, scarce water, filth
and overcrowding everywhere. No
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arrangements for hygiene. No bed
sheets, no operating tables and
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no medical supplies. The nurses
themselves were allocated five
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rat infested bedrooms and a
single kitchen. Miss Nightingale
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quickly started requisitioning
supplies which was an unheard
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of power for a woman to have in
terms of the military. The first
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thing she asked for were towels
and soap. Then she started
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insisting that the clothes be
washed and the floor scrubbed.
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She wasted no time in whipping
the hospitals into shape. But
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right away she started running
into trouble. Some of the
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officers complained about her
power. Some of the doctors also
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grumbled. How could this woman,
just arrived, pretend to know
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what needed to be done and have
more authority than they had.
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But there was one group of
people who fully approved of her
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and supported what Miss
Nightingale was doing. These
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were her patients, the wounded
soldiers. They all but adored
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her because she did for them
what no one else had done. They
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called her the lady with the
lamp because at the end of each
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day when it got dark and other
staff had retired for the night
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Florence Nightingale would
take her lamp and visit the
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wounded in the wards.
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She made sure they were
comfortable and their injuries
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were tended to. The grateful
soldiers spoke of kissing her
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very shadows as she passed. A
report describing how she cared
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for the wounded was sent back
to England. This is what it said
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One of the very lamps she used
is on display at the Florence
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Nightingale museum near the
Houses of Parliament in London.
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The Turkish style lamp
is a graphic reminder of her
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commitment and dedication to
the care for the sick and dying
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under difficult and trying
circumstances. Despite the many
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obstacles Florence Nightingale
kept on working. It seemed that
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nothing could stand in her way
when it came to caring for the
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wounded and the sick. The
changes that Florence introduced
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reduced the death rate in the
military hospitals from 42% to
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two percent. And even from the
war zone she started suggesting
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changes to legislation that
would help the men. One example
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was the law said that
hospitalized men had their pay
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cut since they weren't on the
front lines anymore. Often these
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men ended up handicapped for
life. Miss Nightingale wrote to
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Queen Victoria opposing these
pay cuts and the men's pay was
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restored. There were many other
examples of legislation that she
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suggested or wrote which
was introduced to Parliament and
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subsequently passed. It had been
a miserable war. Although the
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war had started with a huge wave
of popular support by the end of
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it the English public
were horrified and tired of it.
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But amid the devastation
Florence Nightingale emerged as
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the hero. As one biographer said
She had the country at her feet.
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Upon her return to England
Miss Nightingale was received by
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Queen Victoria who gave her
an inscribed diamond broach as a
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token of her appreciation.
Florence had returned to England
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looking pale and gaunt suffering
from several sicknesses. But she
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had found her cause. Something
that she could devote her energy
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to and make a difference in
the world. She had finally found
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what God had called her to do.
Health and hygiene and wounded
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soldiers in general were
neglected in the British army.
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In other words, if you
joined the army you were
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overwhelmingly more
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likely to die from diseases
due to poor hygiene than and the
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More soldiers were dying from
hospital infections than from
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battlefield injuries. Florence
managed to convince Queen
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Victoria that urgent reforms
were needed. In fact, they
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became friends. The queen would
summon her to visit the palace
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and amazingly, even made
informal visits to Florence's
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home herself. In gratitude to
Miss Nightingale for her work in
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Crimea 70 prominent people
of England established the
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Nightingale fund and she became
its first administrator. One of
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the first things the fund
did was to establish in 1860 a
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school for nurses at St. Thomas'
Hospital which Miss Nightingale
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also supervised. The school
still exists today. It's called
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the Florence Nightingale School
of Nursing and Midwifery and is
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part of Kings College, London.
Although Florence remained ill
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her health eventually improved
somewhat. Still she didn't stop
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working. During the night
she wrote books about how to run
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hospitals, care for the sick and
on nursing. And these books were
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translated into many languages
around the world. Soon, however,
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another war broke out, the
Franco-Prussian War. During the
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war Florence worked with the
National Society for the Aid to
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the Sick and Wounded which
was later called the Red Cross.
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After the war ended
Jean Henri Dunant said this:
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After this Florence reduced her
public work for a time to nurse
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first her dying father, then her
dying mother and then her dying
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sister. Florence herself lived
on into old age continuing to
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work and contribute and
everywhere she went she was
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treated with respect and awe.
She continued to write until her
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sight failed and her memory
dulled. On August the 13th 1910
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she fell asleep around noon and
did not awaken. In 1907, King
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Edward VII bestowed on her the
Order of Merit, the first time
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ever that this had been given
to a woman. Florence Nightingale
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also received many other rewards
and honors. One of the amazing
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things about her life is
that she contributed so much and
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continued to work for the sick
and poor even though she herself
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spent long periods of time
bedridden with illness. What was
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it that lay at the heart of
Florence Nightingale's passion
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for healing the sick,
helping the poor and alleviating
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suffering wherever she found it?
What was the motivating factor
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behind the way she transformed
the care of sick in this world
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and once she had founded the
modern profession of nursing?
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Well Florence Nightingale was
intensely, personally devoted to
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Jesus Christ and his
ideals of unconditional love and
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compassion. She believed that
the work of her life was her
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response to the call of God
on her life. Throughout her life
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Florence always looked for
a deeper and deeper experience
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with God. Not through outward
rituals and religious ceremonies
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but through the transformation
of her heart. Florence
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Nightingale treasured her Bible
and this is another possession
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she treasured, her prayer book.
It's come all the way back to
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England via New Zealand and
Australia where it was taken by
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a close relative over 100 years
ago. It carries her name and
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signature and is a reminder of
the central role the Bible and
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prayer played in her life. In
everything Florence Nightingale
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tried to follow Jesus. When she
became a nurse at 30 years of
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age she noted that this was
the age when Jesus had begun his
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ministry. She once told an
assembly of nurses, Christ is
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the author of our profession.
It's fashionable today to forget
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how it is that we have come
to enjoy all the advantages and
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blessings of our modern society
and culture. It's easy to take
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nursing and nurses for granted.
We forget that we enjoy the
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advantages we have because
of the Christian roots of our
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society. It's tragic when we
forget the importance of God and
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his word the Bible in our
lives. It was because Florence
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Nightingale made the Bible the
very center of her life that she
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was able to excel and become
the person she became and change
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out world forever. In those long
dreary nights during the war in
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Crimea as Florence Nightingale
did her rounds in the hospitals
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she brought not just physical
comfort but spiritual comfort
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as well. Do you need that kind
of spiritual comfort in your
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life? I'm talking about the
comfort that only God can give.
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If you would like to experience
the inner peace and happiness
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that God offers, please ask
for it right now as we pray.
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Dear Heavenly Father, we all
hunger for more in this life and
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we're encouraged and inspired
as we look the lives of your
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heroes like Florence Nightingale
We admit that the weakness in
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our lives is because we have
relied too much on ourselves
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instead of relying on you.
We thank you because you have a
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plan for us and that it's a good
plan. Please come into our lives
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and lead us back to your
word the Bible. We ask this in
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Jesus' name, Amen.
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Until then remember the ultimate
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destination of life's journey.
Now I saw a new heaven and a
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There shall the no more death
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shall be no more pain for the
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