Author: Small, Hugh.
Title: Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel.
Description: London Constable, 1999. 1st p/b ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, top corner front cover little creased, minor edgewear. 221 pp. This is the story of the reasons behind Florence Nightingales mental and physical collapse which took her to her bed for ten years, and to spend the rest of her life as a reclusive invalid. Even bedridden, she worked obsessively for social reform. The author has shown that her contribution to public health after the war was crucial, and that she made use of the most advanced scientific expertise of the day. ISBN: 0094798400

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