Florence Nightingale: Lady With the Lamp (Heroes of the Faith)

For Florence Nightingale (1820--1910) following Christs example of service meant tending to the medical needs of the sick and injured. The famous "Lady with the Lamp " one of the most influential women of nineteenth-century England is generally considered the founder of modern nursing. The best-known aspect of her life--nursing wounded soldiers at Scutari Hospital in Turkey during the Crimean War--comprised in fact a very small part of her fifty-year career but provided the springboard from which it all began. Her good deeds to "the least of these" helped elevate nursing to the respectable profession it is today.