Florence Nightingle.

          Florence Nightingle did not like the easy and pleasant occupation of society, and instead of going to patties she visited the London hospitals and studied how sick people were nursed back to health and strength.

          In those days hospital nurses were ignorant and she was shocked by the roughness and mismanagement that prevailed in England’s hospitals. So she went to Germany and studied nursing there, and then she went to Paris.
          At last when she was quite certain that she had mastered her subject, she returned to England and began her work of improving the nursing in the hospitals.

          While she was engaged at this work, a war broke out in Crimea between Russia and England. At first people thought only of the glory of battle and the courage of the soldiers who went singing to their death.
          But soon other stories came home to England, dreamful stories of wounded men being left to die. England was shocked by these things and everybody cried out that something must be done, something to stop at once the sufferings of the brave soldiers.
          That was done by Florence Nightingle. 

 She went to Crimea with less than forty nurses and in a few months she  had succeeded in transforming the nursing of soldiers.