title: Lessons from the Crimean War: How Hospitals were Transformed by Florence Nightingale and Others
abstract: The Crimean War (1853-1856) transformed Istanbul, then the Ottoman capital, into a medical hub where new ideas were tested and exchanged among doctors and nurses from all over Europe to control the spread of infectious diseases that claimed more lives than battle wounds. Although [...]
journal: Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology