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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=525191" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Florence Nightingale's Crimean War Patients</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The facts myth and legend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Florence Nightingale <br> laboured in Constantinople; <br> nursing surgical period <br> Crimean War casualties; <br> British soldiers treats <br> near on two weary legless years.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">November 1854 sees <br>Nightingale's ship arrived; <br>at Selimiye Barracks <br>in Scutari Constantinople; <br>modern-day Üsküdar in <br>present day Istanbul Turkey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nightingale's staff <br>consisting of courageous; <br>38 women volunteer nurses<br>trained by Nightingale; <br>could not preform miracles <br>wound disease death toll rises? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death rate highest of all <br>hospitals in treatment region; <br>first winter at Scutari <br>4,077 soldiers there died; <br>ten times more soldiers <br>died from illnesses diseases; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">than from battle wounds? <br> <br>In the face of military official <br>administrative indifference; <br>Nightingale and her nurses <br>arrival found wounded soldiers; <br>badly cared for by ill equipped <br>overworked medical staff? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mass infections were common<br>cholera dysentery typhoid; <br>typhus were fatal for fated many... <br>medicines were in short supply; <br>hygiene was being neglected <br>no equipment existed to process; <br> <br>food for suffering wounded patients? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why were conditions <br>at the temporary; <br>Selimiye Barracks <br>in Scutari hospital; <br>so fatal to patients<br>Crimean War during? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Simple obvious expected answers<br>when present developed medical; <br>research knowledge is applied <br>past conditions of overcrowding; <br>Scutari hospital's defective sewers <br>lack of adequate ventilation? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Sanitary Commission sent <br>out by British government; <br>to hospital Scutari in March 1855 <br>arrived approximately six months; <br>after lamp lady Florence Nightingale <br>had arrived effected treatment flushing; <br>out sewers improvements to ventilation? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death rates were sharply reduced. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Florence Nightingale during <br>Crimean War did not; <br>recognize hygiene as <br>death cause predominant; <br>Florence Nightingale <br>never claimed credit; <br>for personally helping <br>to reduce death rate? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Florence Nightingale <br>was angelic compassion; <br>lady with the lamp an<br>angel visitation in nightmares; <br>during agony death nights<br>when fear gripped dying hearts; <br>truth is legend accolades? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who perpetuated <br>until recently held myths; <br>which commonly asserted <br>Nightingale reduced; <br>death rate from 42% to 2% <br>by making improvements; <br>in hygiene herself personally<br>called in Sanitary Commission? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Dictionary of National <br>Biography first edition of 1911; <br>made this claim unsubstantiated <br>second edition in 2001 did not? <br>Fabulous legendary achievements <br>of early great heroic innovators; <br>is best honoured in truth plain <br>lamp nightly angelic visitations?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q>
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'Florence Nightingale 
 laboured in Constantinople; 
 nursing surgical period 
 Crimean War casualties; 
 British soldiers treats 
 near on two weary legless years.'

November 1854 sees 
Nightingale's ship arrived; 
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