Hello everybody you're watching Curious
Pavel and in today's video we will
share some facts with you for Florence Nightingale
So Florence Nightingale. She was born in 1820 in
Florence, Italy. As you can imagine she
was named after the city. Shortly after
they move with their parents back to
England and since her early ages she
realizes that she likes to care for
people. Oh look, Santa is driving a car!
Anyway. She likes to care for people and
she wanted to be a nurse but her family and
especially her father was against this because
they were wealthy and the nurses at that
time were coming from poor
background. But she followed her dream and eventually
her father gave her his blessing.
Her peak was when the Crimean War break
out. If you didn't check it we already
made a video about the Crimean War and
you can have a look at it over here. So
she went to the Crimea... actually when the
war breaks out she writes to The
minister, she writes to the
government to offer help but her friend,
this guy here, his name is Sidney Herbert.
At that time he was the Secretary of war.
They met about 10 years before the war
and they become good friends. So Sidney
Herbert directly sends her to
the Crimea. When she arrives there she sees
the terrible conditions in the hospitals:
it's full with rats, no clean clothes, no food.
The soldiers who were wounded were
sleeping in overcrowded, dirty rooms with limited
blankets and beds. Imagine this: one in
every six soldiers was dying from their
war injuries. Everybody else from
diseases. So she cleaned up the hospitals,
she trained nurses, she raised dramatically the
number of lives saved in the hospital.
She really cared for the people, she even
visited them when everybody else was asleep
for which is later called "The lady with
the lamp" and that is why she is holding
a lamp. "Who wants to be a millionaire"
question. When the war finishes she goes
back to England. Now her parents who were
ashamed of her now they were very proud and
they were showing by hosting a lot of
parties but she didn't want the
attention. She wrote a book called "Notes on
nursing" and she established the "Nightingale
training school" in St. Thompas hospital in
London. That happened in 1860, so she was about 40.
Later she gave advice to the Americans about how
to treat injured people in their Civil
war. Now, I don't know if you have seen
Queen Victoria. Have a look.
I haven't met her but she looks like the type
of person that is kind a difficult to be
impressed.
Well, Florence managed to impress her and
Queen Victoria gives her the Royal Red Cross.
Her son, Queen Victoria's son, Edward VII
gives to Florence The Order of Merit
which is awarded to a woman for a
very first time. This happened in 1907.
Three years later
Florence died. She was aged 90 and even though her
last 4 years of her life she was really weak
really weak and spent most of them
in bed, she still found strenght to write
letters and inspire people. Four hospitals in Turkey
are called after her and there's a Nightingale
Museum in St. Thomas Hospital in London.
We'll put a link in the description to
the museum in case you want to
visit it.
So let's go around the monument.
She was very popular with the soldier
because they felt like she's their
mother. She was really carrying. This here
I suppose happened after the war because
before that the country didn't care
about treating the injured people. Once
you're injured most likely you're done.
Remember? One in every six. So the
nursing before her was done by people
who were too old,
too drunken or too stupid to do anything else.
But after that, as you can see, everybody in the
room, I suppose that's her, everybody in
the room is faced to her
which shows some respect.
Over here we see only women. Now, there
was a time when she was at the Crimea whene
she got ill and everybody was worried.
This was time when she was already
established, people already cared about
her back and they were kind a worried that
she's not gonna survive but she did.
The Crimea was full with diseases but once
again she survived.
Here on this side,
I suppose that's her, waiting at the door for the soldiers
to arrive and you can see nurses
which were trained by her and that's about it.
Once again she participated
in the Crimean War. We made a
video. Go check the video if you like
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mention, we'll talk about the battles
during the Crimean War so we gonna stay
on this place, talk about this monument and
something curious about it.
So, I'll see you next time.