When Florence Nightingale arrived at the Scutari military hospital in Turkey in 1854, conditions there were almost as bad as on the battlefield. As Britain and its allies pushed back against ...

Photo by VCG Wilson—Corbis via Getty Images Nightingale’s time at Scutari prompted several innovations that she would develop in the later years of her life.

The romantic image of the Lady with the Lamp endures to this day. Florence Nightingale's pioneering work in nursing is well-documented, but were her own achievements, tending the ill and dying in ...

Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady with a lamp. The legend of the saintly nurse has long obscured the truth – that her mathematical genius was what really saved so many lives.

The horrors she witnessed at the British Army hospital of Scutari, near modern Istanbul, would weigh on Nightingale the rest of her life. She later described the wards she first encountered as ...

The Crimean War: Where Nightingale’s Legend Was Born In 1854, Florence Nightingale took 38 volunteer nurses to the British base hospital at Scutari in modern-day Istanbul.

Florence Nightingale is best known for leading a group of 38 nurses to care for British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War in 1854. When Nightingale and her nurses arrived at the military hospital in ...

Bringing Sanitation To Medicine In October 1854, Nightingale brought 38 female nurses under her supervision to Scutari Barrack in Constantinople – today’s Istanbul. Originally a gargantuan stone ...

Four miles of patients Florence Nightingale’s big career move came when she was just 24 years old. In 1854, she set off to help soldiers injured during the Crimean War. She travelled to Scutari ...

CRIMEAN RELIC: Wooden chest depicting Scutari Hospital scenes during the Crimean War and close-up of Florence Nightingale, with lamp, tending patient.