title: Florence Nightingale, Notes on the Health of the British Army (London: Harrison &amp; Sons, 1858), PP. 469–76.
abstract: Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 to a wealthy family. While her parents wished her to pursue a conventional path for upper-class young women―a suitable marriage and then children―Nightingale was determined to train as a nurse, a career she saw as a vocation. In spite of her parents’ opposition, in 1850, she did manage to take training in Germany. After the outbreak of the Crimean War when the appalling hospital conditions became known at home, Sidney Herbert, a good friend who was also Secr