Fonds aarn-2208 - Florence Nightingale fonds

Mary Adelaide Nutting, a Canadian-born American prominent in nursing education, recorded this tribute to Florence Nightingale, which includes a very brief (34 second) but moving greeting from Miss Nightingale, recorded in 1890. ; Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910, was an English nurse and medical reformer who became famous during the Crimean War, 1853-1855, for her efforts to publicize the state of the British Army's medical facilities and to improve the conditions for patients in the field hospitals. She took a party of nurses to the hospital at Scutari, where conditions were both unhealthy and dangerous, for both patients and nurses. It was here that she became known as "the Lady with the Lamp" for her late-night inspections of the wards. After the war she devoted her life to improving community health and hospital care, world-wide. During the American Civil Warn she visited and reported on conditions in the military hospitals. Her major work was the improvement and formalization of hospital training schools for nurses. Mary Adelaide Nutting, 1858-1948, was raised in Montreal. She graduated with the first class in nursing at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Miss Nutting has been described as "second only to Florence Nightingale" in her contributions to nursing". She helped to organize the Maryland State Nurses Association and became its first President. State registration of nurses was one of her primary goals; the second was the development of nursing education in universities. The books and articles she collected for reference in writing her 4-volume history of nursing (with Lavinia Dock) became part of the Memorial Library named for her at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she was "the first professor of nursing in the world".