Tooley interviewed people who had worked with her: the Derbyshire girlhood and the family’s resistance, the training at Kaiserswerth, the Scutari hospitals and what she found there, the sanitary reforms that cut the death rate, and the fifty years afterwards spent, largely from a sofa, rebuilding army medicine and the nursing profession.
Nightingale’s life, recorded by a contemporary who knew the witnesses. Download the free EPUB.