Florence Nightingale Quotes
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
Citations
Cook, Sir Edward Tyas. The Life of Florence Nightingale. Vol. 1, Macmillan and Co., 1913, p. 15.
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Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC, DStJ was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.