Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820, to William and Frances Nightingale, a wealthy British couple. The Nightingales raised their two daughters, Florence and her sister ...

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

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 ...

Nightingale implemented the practices that worked well in her training school for nursing and Scutari hospital. Letters show that Nightingale objected to nuns’ trying to convert soldiers on their ...

At Scutari, she and her nurses found few provisions, little medicine or edible food, and overcrowded hospital wards full of rats, lice and raw sewage.

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 ...

Originally a gargantuan stone barracks for the Turkish army, Scutari was now a British hospital housing thousands of wounded English and Irish soldiers.

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 ...