Florence Nightingal

Against the wishes of his parents were Nightingale travel to Germany for more information about nursing. His studies took form of experience, as no training of nurses that currently existed. Treat the sick, distributed and medicine with the help of doctors in hospitals and clinics.

Florence Nightingal

“We have learned to think about our work, not of ourselves,” he recorded in his diary.

Florence Nightingal

In 1854, she voluntarily with the British army in the Crimean War, leads a team of 38 nurses to the battlefield the wounded on the frontline soldiers. Improved sanitary conditions in dirty military hospitals, forgotten, a revolutionary idea at the time and the dark rooms ran into the night with a flashlight to provide comfort to the soldiers. “Therefore it was known as” the Lady of light “.”