71 - ANGEL WITH THE LAMP | Florence Nightingale (Nurse) | Crimean War

The young soldier jerked upright on his cot, another wave of violent pain tore through him.

Outside, the distant thunder of artillery. But inside conditions were as lethal as the battlefield, more soldiers dying from infection and disease than from enemy bullets.

Again, the young soldier called out: “Please… someone…water.”

The soldier lay back. In his moment of hopelessness, the faint glow of an oil lamp appeared.

Coming closer it revealed the compassionate face of a tall, determined woman. She lifted a cup of clean water to his lips.

“Easy now,” she said softly.

The soldier stared in disbelief. Such a beautiful woman, and here in this horrible place?

“What…what is your name?” he whispered to her.

She gave him a reassuring smile. “My name is Florence. Florence Nightingale. Rest now.”

But this wasn’t just any nurse. She was a miracle worker making the needed changes to turn the military hospital from a place where men went to die to a place of healing.

She studied the newly revealed germ theory. Hospitals across Europe and America adopted her system.

Today nurses around the globe still carry the spirit of this heroic woman into every long and challenging shift.

Thank you, Florence Nightingale, the Angel with the lamp.

I’m Rick Robison and this is the HEROES FOR FREEDOM Podcast.

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