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Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) 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. [4]
Suspected to have had syphilis [22] [2] [23] Al Capone (1899–1947), American gangster Died from syphilis [24] Lavrentiy Beria (1899–1953), Soviet politician & serial rapist Admitted before his execution he had been treated for syphilis. Alger "Texas" Alexander (1900–1954), American blues singer Died from syphilis [25]
Statistical diagram created by Florence Nightingale detailing cause of death in the British army in The Crimean War. Though Nightingale first believed bad air was the cause of disease, she used the term "germ" in her contribution to Dr. Richard Quain's medical dictionary which was published in 1883: [17] [18]
By 1956, congenital syphilis had been almost eliminated, and female cases of acquired syphilis had been reduced to a hundredth of their level just 10 years previously. [ 90 ] In 1978 in England and Wales, homosexual men accounted for 58% of syphilis cases in (and 76% of cases in London), but by 1994–1996 this figure was 25%, possibly driven ...
The letter by Florence Nightingale (Andrew Matthews/PA) “It is a remarkable find and is completely unspoiled, despite spending the last 140 years in an old scrapbook which belonged to the famed ...
McDonald, Lynn. (2005) “Prostitution, the Contagious Diseases Acts and the Treatment of Syphilitic Prostitutes,” Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 411–515.) Murray, Janet (1982). Strong Minded Women & Other Lost Voices from 19th Century England. Pantheon. p ...
A portrait created of Mrs. Frances Nightingale and her daughter Frances Parthenope and Florence Nightingale. Frances Parthenope Nightingale was born on 19 May 1819 in Naples, Italy, [2] during her parents' honeymoon. Parthenope's birth was a rather traumatic one for both Fanny and Parthe.
The suspects include Daphne Miller, a young woman whose nursing career Florence could have ruined if she had lived; Randolph, Florence's cousin who inherited her money; Zaki Hanachi, a French soldier of Algerian ancestry whom she helped recover after the war and who may have been asking her for money; Travis Pickford, a boxer and black marketer ...