Florence Nightingale, by Kevin Miller
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My heroine is Florence Nightingale. Mrs Nightingale
(BE)
a British nurse, statistician and social reformer. She
(LIVE)
from 1820 to 1910, and she
(BECOME)
famous for helping soldiers wounded in the Crimean War (1853-56), a war between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire (based in what later
(BECOME)
Turkey).
Hospitals back then
(BE)
terrible: many people
(DIE)
from infections they
(GET)
in the hospital because the doctors and nurses
(NOT WASH)
their hands. There
(BE)
no anaesthetics, so when they
(HAVE TO, CUT OFF)
somebody's leg they
(HAVE TO, DO)
so without. There
(BE)
no disinfectants, either -nobody
(KNOW)
where infection
(COME)
from. The hospitals
(BE)
dirty. There
(CAN, BE)
100 sick people in each room. They
(EAT)
bad food, and the nurses
(NOT CHANGE)
their bandages. The reason is, they
(NOT KNOW)
it
(BE)
necessary.
Nightingale
(COME)
to Scutari, on the Crimean Peninsula, in 1854, and she
(START)
to change things. She
(USE)
statistics to show people that hygiene
(BE)
very important. After a while people
(LISTEN)
to her, and she
(SAVE)
many lives.
After the war, Nightingale
(OPEN)
schools for nurses, and she
(HELP)
poor people. And she
(WRITE)
the first-ever book about nursing.
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