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Florence Nightingale - Large Picture - Color - Full Length

The birth of Florence Nightingale, on this day 12th May, 1820. English hospital reformer who attended the wounded during the Crimea War. 'The Lady with the Lamp' had over 10,000 under her care in appalling and unsanitary conditions. Determined to remedy the suffering she had experienced, she raised £50,000 to establish nurses training in Britain

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