Letter : General Hospital, Balaclava, to William Codrington, 26 April 1856.

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Letter : General Hospital, Balaclava, to William Codrington, 26 April 1856.

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ALS. Nightingale asks that a permanent position in Crimea be found for orderly Private Martin Grainger.

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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), nursing pioneer and reformer, is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. Born in Florence, Italy, she dedicated her life to the care of the sick and war wounded. In 1844, she began to visit hospitals; in 1850, she spent some time with the nursing Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria and a year later studied at the institute for Protestant deaconesses in Kaiserswerth, Germany. In 1854, she organized a unit of 38 nurses for service in the Crimean War. I...

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