Show r i 1 i 4 i t t tS t t I ITilE S S TilE THE HERALDS u 11 I iU t f 4 4 4 iQ rne St Study dy Ci ele 4 I 4 4 Copyright TM by Seymour tonJ 9 4 Directed by Prof Jrp oL Seymour Eaton anton 4 4 14 4 4 F i iIi f Ii p BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES FOR FOB GIRLS 1 RENCE SQ 1820 BY CHARLOTTE BREWSTER TOn JOR JORDAN DAN DANIn In Florence Nightingale is i 1 found that t rare combination of heart and brain which makes the ideal nurse By means of her winsome personality and marked executive ability she dignified the profession sion of oC nursing and raised ra it from the th makeshift employment of the degraded and ignorant up into the realm of the fine arts Named for the beautiful Italian city ci y yin in which she was born In 1820 Flor Florence Florence Floronce ence once Nightingale passed much of her happy and charitable childhood at her fathers country seat at Leigh Hurst Derbyshire She was peculiarly fortu fortunate fortunate fortunate nate In her forbears From Prom her moth mothers mothers mothers ers father WilIlam William Smith the great philanthropist she inherited her earn earnest earnest earnest est desire to be one of ot the worlds help heI helpers hem ers erSt and from her father she derived d that mental equipment and broadmindedness broadmindedness broadmindedness edness which converted her ambition into fact Charming stoNes are arc extant of her sympathetic childhood in which the nursing of wounded animals and Bel scientific sd bandaging of dolls doUs played an absorbing part Her studies st dies of the tite languages and higher mathematics de dt developed developed vel and strengthened her mind for forthe forthe forthe the scientific discipline in store for it it itan awl and an her facility as a u musician and needlewoman trained her delicate touch to a nicety To these early ad advantages advantages advantages vantages foreign travel added its broadening influence Wherever she went she studied the science of nurs nursing nursing nursing ing tending with her own hands some wounded Arabs whom the family met while traveling in Egypt studying for several months Pastor Dea Deaconesses at Kai erwerth working with the sisters of St Vincent de Paul of Paris serving altogether an apprenticeship apprenticeship apprenticeship of nine years of close lose study of the alleviation of suffering ring before the critical moment arrived that was to test her life work Meanwhile she had greatly pe impaired impair her bel health by work working workIng ing lIng night and day for three years put putting putI putting I ting the Harley street sanitarium upon I a sound BOund financial and scientific foot footing footing ing thus demonstrating Indisputably i that helpfulness wits w s the first law of her ber being While recruiting from the bodily ex cx exhaustion exhaustion incident to this work worl she shared in the horror agitating all Eng England England England land caused by the terrible pictures of suffering which William H Russell sept sent to the London Times from the Crimea In these letters he demon demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated so clearly that the unsanitary Y I condition of the British army was kill kiIl killIng ingoff Ing off more men than the deadly bat battles battles batties ties of the Crimea Crima that England be became I came caine over the mortality list vet et seemed to curtail it In the hurry and enthusiasm at the tho outbreak of the Crimean war 1854 Great Britain had dispatched shiploads of men improperly provided with food or clothing for fot lh the severe Russian cli climate climate mate Starvation cholera and agonizing ing lug suffering were the results But two persons in England seemed to re retain retain tain tam their composure amid the t e general consternation Lord Herbert minister of ot war and Florence Nightingale The former wrote a letter to his friend Miss Nightingale e stating that he con considered consIdered her the only person in Great Britain capable oT of bringing order out of confusion and imploring her to or organize organize o and direct the reform of the military hospitals hospitais and this letter was crossed by one from Miss Nightingale volunteering to place her strength and ability at the service serice of her nation Good trained nurses were almost un unknown unknown known quantities In those days yet nothing daunted da Florence Nightingale le sailed from England with thirty Of If the boot beit nurses that she could muster mus r within a week from her letter Jetter of vor er Letters immediately appeared in the daik daiy ait papers inquiring who this I patriot patri t was and when it became I known he she was not the hospital matron of the ie old regime but a young delicate and singularly accomplished woman who ho was about to try to leMon lessen the th hideousness hid of war popular gratitude gratitude gratitude tude and enthusiasm became intense When her mission became an accomplished accomplished pUshed fact and it was found that her quiet good sense jense was able to over overcome overcome overcome come the popular prejudice against womanly prominence to conciliate the general disapproval of medical and military officials to train her staff In Into Into t to the knowledge that mere kindheart kindheartedness kindheartedness kindheartedness edness was not the only requisite for intelligent nursing and to keep all allaround allaround ll around her up to the very highest standards th the national support be became became became came immediate and practical So SoI I sympathetic that thai her grateful ful patients I declared their recovery to be due to the compassion with which she dressed their ghastly wounds she nevertheless so sc s well uell the art of o tempering her sympathy with measures for ulti ultimate ultimate ultimate mate gain that outsiders sometimes lost SigHt of her tenderness in her hel phe phenomenal phenomenal phenomenal executive energy Overcoming professional 1 jealousy by l setting her nurses Can an example of I obedience to the surge she set her hor herself herself self to the th task tas of at c cleansing the Au Augean Augean gean genii hospitals cont over patients These hese barrack hospitals at which had been loaned to the British government by the sultan of or Turkey were tee feet fee above alve the Bos porus The day before the arrival of the staff of nurses the wounded from Balaclava Bela laa had been landed packed in inthe inthe i ithe the overcrowded transports tn their wounds han had not been dressed for five i days and nd cholera and fever were reap reaping reaping reaping ing their fearful harvest The poor men outside in the trenches half per perished perished perished with cold old and starvation were faring far better than the sufferers in inthe inthe inthe the tainted d wards of the disordered hospitals hos After Alter comparative comfort had been established 4 Florence Nightingale Nigh opened a diet kitchen where specialties were prepared for the men who could Pot not eat ordinary food a laundry where for fr the first time since Bince they had been brought down from the Crimea ragged raged clothes of the soldiers were washed l and a combination library and schoolroom where the chaplain aided her in instituting games ames and lectures toy for the convalescents The Tha m st difficult of all the provinces was of course that of nursing yet it itis itis itis is said that wherever there was the greatest danger or distress there th re the faithful f head was to be found sIlently superintending never allowing a se severe severe severe vere case to escape her personal treat treatment treatment ment To accomplish this she often stood twenty hours at a n time and af after after a ater ter the th doctor had retired she hc was to tobe tobe tobe be seen making her nightly rounds through miles of suffering patients I shading with her hand the lamp that she carried that it might not disturb the sick many of whom as she passed kissed her het hersha shadow Jw on their pillows with passionate enthusiasm Longfellow has commemorated this incident in his ex cx exquisite exqUIsite Santa Filomena with such sympathetic touch that no n biographer of Florence Nightingale Nig can refrain from quoting it itLo itLo ItLo Lo in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see e Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit fHt from fr m room to room And low as in a dream of bliss bUss The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow as it falls Upon the darkening walls walts waltsOn On annals through the tho long Hereafter of her Speech and song A 4 light its rays snail shall cast t om portals of the pat past pastA patA A lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land landA A noble typo type of of good Heroic womanhood Not so elegant el yet probably as sin sincere sincere sincere cere as the th mote more polished versO verse e were the street in which popular r en enthusiasm enthusiasm enthusiasm extolled d dT The T Nightingale of the ost t For Fot her heart It ft means man good And in the home St StThomas StThomas Thomas hospital London a statuette of the Angel of the Crimea C tells the same story in marble Through her unflagging efforts the death rat rate in the barracks ks hospital at which she found at 60 GO per per cent was reduced redu ed to a over 1 per percent percent percent cent Then she felt fell it her duty to cross the Blacksea ea to todo she he could to alleviate jt the tle e in the hut hos lies hospitals or o B vi Here competent help was even more moire mo difficult to secure than at and the t e protracted strain finally brought about the long feared f ared result over which her friends had been so apprehensive Florence For nce Nightingale succumbed to the Crimean fever and for several weeks w eks lay at the point of death Shortly after her re recovery recovery recovery covery the years war came caine to a cloS and its heroine slipped quietly me an for life Too unassuming to accent acce t any personal re reward ward for her services or even the care carefully carefully fully funy planned ovation of her grateful countrymen she he retired to her Derby Derbyshire Derbyshire shire home for many years unable to leave the tie house E EITer Her ITer invalid l il w fu s anything but idle however for tor she has worked w during durins the tiie remainder of f npr hr long life in amell ameli ameliorating orating with her pen the hospital condi conditions conditions conditions throughout entire Europe India Ind a and Australia her favorite recreation being an occasional vist to the Night Nightingale Nightingale Nightingale memorial home England Englander erected er at ata a cost of as a testimonial testimonial testimonial to her helpfulness during the Crimean 1 war She possessed a wonder fal fel facility in condensing tedious re reports reports ports and folios into strikingly lucid briefs most moat useful to the engineer architect medical officer and home homemaker homemaker homemaker maker The Crimean war she characterized as a sanitary experiment upon up n a col colossal colossal colossal scale and she impressed upon the British commissioners its salutary hut but harrowing h lessons In addition to her h books upon the health of the British soldier her labors in ill helping to found the Red Cross society entitle her to the t e gratitude of the t e soldiery of the civilized world Just recently In her year England has consulted her regarding the military hospitals in inthe inthe inthe the Transvaal |