FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ff AS SEEN IN HER PORTRAITS By MAUDE E. SEY~[oUR ABBOTT, B.A., M.D. McGill UniveA·rsitl/, MonttA·cal. INTRODUCTORY. IT is nearly three quarters of a century since the name of Florence Nightingale first thrilled through Europe, plunged in the horrors of the terrible Crimean War. The details of bel' great and beneficent achievement have been forgot~ ten by many, and in their full extent, indeed, have only been known by very few. Yet her name remains as a household word among us, breathing always the charm diffused by a life -consecrated to high ideals, and symbolizing to us the power to move mountains of the passion": ate womanly sympathy, discerning judgment, and magnificent organizing genius, which together made her at once the Crimean heroine and the grea t reformer of military hygiene of the Victorian Age. Today we are again plunged into a A·war which has become even more terrible than any in the past, in consequence of the refincments of soTable of Contents...

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