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Florence Nightingale Is Famous As The Lady With The Lamp In The Crimean War, 1854-56. There Is A Massive Amount Of Literature On This Work, But, As Editor Lynn Mcdonald Shows, It Is Often Erroneous, And Films And Press Reporting On It Have Been Even Less Accurate. The Crimean War Reports On Nightingale's Correspondence From The War Hospitals And On The Staggering Amount Of Work She Did Post-war To Ensure That The Appalling Death Rate From Disease (higher Than That From Bullets) Did Not Recur. This Volume Contains Much On Nightingale's Efforts To Achieve Real Reforms. He Machine Generated Contents Note: Chronology Of The Crimean War And Nightingale's Work -- Background On The Crimean War -- Medical Science At The Time Of The Crimean War -- Investigations Of The Crimean War -- Secondary Sources On Nightingale And The Crimean War -- Key To Editing -- Letters From The Crimean War -- Preparations, Departure And Travel -- 1855 -- 1856 -- On Return From The Crimean War -- 1857-58 -- Nightingale's Reports On The Crimean War -- Notes On The Health Of The British Army -- Answers To Written Questions -- Promotion And Distribution Of The Reports. Lynn Mcdonald, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 1054-1059) And Index. English