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Florence Nightingale
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  • When she was eighteen, inflamed by a biography of Florence Nightingale, she enrolled as a student nurse at St. Rose's Hospital in Great Bend, Kansas.†  (source)
  • There are people who say that Miss Florence Nightingale does not have a refined nature, or she would not have been able to witness such degrading spectacles without impairing her health.†  (source)
  • She attempts one of those confessional smiles, the sort usually seen in reverent portraits of Florence Nightingale.†  (source)
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  • Compared with other historical figures in medicine, such as Pasteur or Schweitzer or Florence Nightingale, Virchow isn't very well-known.†  (source)
  • Florence Nightingale shrieked aloud in her agony.†  (source)
  • She has come as Florence Nightingale, her hero.†  (source)
  • [* See CASSANDRA, by Florence Nightingale, printed in THE CAUSE, by R. Strachey†  (source)
  • Is that the one in which Florence Nightingale appears on the battlefield like an angel, or is it the poem that likens Admiral Nelson to a Greek god?†  (source)
  • However, thanks to the toils of those obscure women in the past, of whom I wish we knew more, thanks, curiously enough to two wars, the Crimean which let Florence Nightingale out of her drawing-room, and the European War which opened the doors to the average woman some sixty years later, these evils are in the way to be bettered.†  (source)
  • Florence Nightingale said she was inspired by a recurring divine calling experience.†
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