Florence Nightingale and the Wisdom That Would Not Stay Silent
In 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari and found soldiers dying not from battlefield wounds but from ignorance. The wards...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31.
In 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari and found soldiers dying not from battlefield wounds but from ignorance. The wards reeked of sewage. Linens went unwashed. Doctors scoffed at her insistence that sanitation mattered. Wisdom was calling out in the public square, and the powerful covered their ears. Nightingale refused to whisper from the margins.…
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