Discover the ways in which Civil War Americans thought disease traveled by smells and how they worked to stop its spread with good odors.
by David Price
Florence Nightingale
On May 11 celebrate National Nurses Week and Florence Nightingale’s birthday by discovering how she influenced medical care in the US before the Civil War.
In an age many consider to be medically archaic, medical professionals were already making connections between good ventilation, cleanliness, and health.
If Hastings really was a Nightingale-nurse, she forgot some of her most important lessons.
