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1. Why is Florence Nightingale called “The Lady with the Lamp”?

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2. woman just arrive, pretend to know what needed to be done, and have more
authority than they had? However, there was one cluster of individuals who
approved of her and supported what Miss Nightingale was doing. These were
her patients, the wounded soldiers. They all but adored her, because she did for
them what no one else had done. They named her “the lady with the lamp”,
because at the daybreak when it got dark and other staff had retired for the
night, Florence Nightingale would take her lamp and come upon the wounded
in the zone. She made sure they were cozy and their injuries were liable to. The
obliged soldiers spoke of kissing her very shadow as she went by. The Turkish-
style lamp is an illustrative reminder of her allegiance and dedication to care for
the sick and dying under difficult and trying conditions.
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- At the time of the Crimean War, when Florence Nightingale and her party of


nurses to Turkey, what they found when they arrived in Turkey was a total
disaster. It was no wonder that so few of the wounded English soldiers ever
made it back home. They found moldy bread, scarce water, filth, and
overcrowding all over, no arrangements for hygiene, no bedsheets, no
operative tables, and no medical provides. The nurses themselves were
allocated bedrooms and a single kitchen which were rat-infested. The first
things she requested were towels and soap. Then she started insisting that
the floors should be scrubbed and the clothes should be washed. She
wasted no time in flogging the hospitals into shape. But right away, she started
running into trouble. Some of the officers grumbled about her power. Some of
the doctors also grumbled. How could this

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