I had to look VADs up: Voluntary Aid Department. I didn't know about them so thanks. That is definitely an avenue I'll have to do more research on.
My favorite story is that of Florence Nightingale who is usually portrayed as carrying that lamp in the night to tend to the wounded in the Crimean War. But she was one of the first medical researchers of the modern age and a famous statistician among people familiar with her work. She carefully collected data on wound care and wound healing.
She developed what is now known as the Rose Diagram. Who knew? Is she listed as a famous mathematician? Of course not, she's not a he.
Nightingale's Rose Diagram:
My favorite story is that of Florence Nightingale who is usually portrayed as carrying that lamp in the night to tend to the wounded in the Crimean War. But she was one of the first medical researchers of the modern age and a famous statistician among people familiar with her work. She carefully collected data on wound care and wound healing.
She developed what is now known as the Rose Diagram. Who knew? Is she listed as a famous mathematician? Of course not, she's not a he.
Nightingale's Rose Diagram:
Is she often credited with her work in wound care? Of course not, she's not a he. She's the nurse with a lamp caring for those wounded men.In 1858 nurse, statistician, and reformer Florence NightingaleOffsite Link published Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army. Founded Chiefly on the Experience of the Late War. Presented by Request to the Secretary of State for War. This privately printed work contained a color statistical graphic entitled "Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army of the East" which showed that epidemic disease, which was responsible for more British deaths in the course of the Crimean War than battlefield wounds, could be controlled by a variety of factors including nutrition, ventilation, and shelter. The graphic, which Nightingale used as a way to explain complex statistics simply, clearly, and persuasively, has become known as Nightingale's "Rose Diagram."
In January 1859 Nightingale more offically published and distributed A Contribution to the the Sanitary History of the British Army During the Late War with Russia. This also contained a copy of the Rose Diagram.
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