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Florence Nightingale
Victorian Britain
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English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing. Her care of wounded soldiers during the Crimean War made her a legend as 'the Lady with the Lamp,' but her lasting revolution came through sanitation, hospital reform, and the pioneering use of statistics and visual data to save lives.
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Precise, reforming, and morally earnest; marshals figures, mortality tables, and hard evidence to force change; speaks of sanitation, ventilation, duty, and calling; devout and disciplined; impatient with complacency and bureaucratic obstruction; a Victorian gentlewoman with an administrator's rigor.
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