RARE❤️ FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE_VICTORIAN NURSE_ANTIQUE BOOK_CRIMEAN WAR_NICE GIFT

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Title:
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The Story of Florence Nightingale: The Heroine of the Crimea
Author
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-  W J Wintle
Published
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Sunday School Union, London
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no date, circa 1910
binding:
- Pictorial hardcover with gilt spine lettering
Size
= apx. 7.25" by 5.25"  w/  144 pages
WITH 20 illustrations
Contents
- from her birth - to 1910,
I think this was published right before her death!
Florence Nightingale was a trailblazing figure in nursing who greatly affected 19th- and 20th-century policies around proper medical care. She was known for her night rounds to aid the wounded, establishing her image as the 'Lady with the Lamp.'
From a young age & from a wealthy family, Nightingale was active in philanthropy, ministering to the ill and poor people in the village neighboring her family’s estate. Nightingale eventually came to the conclusion that nursing was her calling; she believed the vocation to be her divine purpose. When Nightingale approached her parents and told them about her ambitions to become a nurse, they were not pleased and forbade her to pursue appropriate training.
During the Victorian Era, where English women had almost no property rights,
a young lady of Nightingale's social stature was expected to marry a man of means to ensure her class standing—not take up a job that was viewed by the upper social classes as lowly menial labor.
Florence Nightingale defied the expectations of the time and pursued what she saw as her God-given calling of nursing.
At the time, there were no female nurses stationed at hospitals in the Crimea.
After the Battle of Alma, England was in an uproar about the neglect of their ill and injured soldiers, who not only lacked sufficient medical attention due to hospitals being horribly understaffed but also languished in appallingly
unsanitary conditions.
During the Crimean War [1853-1856], she and a team of nurses improved the unsanitary conditions at a British base hospital,
greatly reducing the death count.
Her writings sparked worldwide health care reform, and in 1860 she established St. Thomas' Hospital and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses. A revered hero of her time,
she died on August 13, 1910,
in London
Condition:
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. all of my books are VERY OLD and have 100+ years of wear to varying degrees
very good condition.... for its age:
boards -
very secure, back cover clean
textblock
- pages very secure
outer joints
- good - both front
spine ends
- bit worn
tips
- very good
inner hinges
-  very good back, front 1 cracked a bit [ see last picture]
pages
- generally very clean, hardly any spots
writing
- sticker remnants on ffep
[ see last picture]
rips /folds
- 2 very, very small rips that I saw - apx 7 dog-ear folds
other:
- book is a bit cocked
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