The Lady with the Lamp

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… After first studying medicine with the Sisters of Charity,

Florence Nightingale later underwent formal training as a nurse

both in London and Edinburgh and then became

superintendant of a hospital in Harvey street, London.

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Hearing of the terrible suffering of the sick and wounded

in the hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War she volunteered for service there.

A part of her heroic tale is the story of the struggle

of one who knows what is right against the inertia

and blind prejudice of bureaucracy.

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