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Florence Nightingale Exhibit
May 01, 2010
—August 29, 2010
The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum presents:
Florence Nightingale: A collection of letters, documents, and personal effects of the founder of modern nursing
Saturday, May 1 – Sunday, August 29, 2010
No hero or heroine in the history of medicine has had a more profound impact or earned more admiration than Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the British pioneer who established the standards of contemporary nursing more than a century and a half ago. Trained in mathematics and the best scientific nursing practices of her time, she introduced both scientific statistical analysis and modern principles of hygiene to her field and elevated its status as an honored profession for women.
The Karpeles Museum is honored to present an extraordinary exhibition of original material about “The Lady with the Lamp,” including letters in which she discusses such issues as health care and medical insurance, as timely in the 1850s as they are today. Her service for the British government during the Crimean War brought her into contact with such people as Queen Victoria and General Gordon of Khartoum, and her analysis of the sanitary conditions in military hospitals remains a model of medical reportage. Equally remarkable are the evidences of Nightingale’s compassion in her reports of individual cases and a personal letter to the family of a victim of the war. Included in the display is a copy of the Bible she inscribed to one of her patients and an 1855 map of the military region of Turkey in which she was working, drawn for Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War for U.S. President Franklin Pierce.
Credited with reducing the mortality rate in a military hospital in which she worked from 42.7% to 2%, Florence Nightingale left a legacy of hospital reform that remains a model and an inspiration. This remarkable collection of documentation and memorabilia will prove both illuminating and inspiring.
The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum is located at 94 Broadway, across from City Hall, in the City of Newburgh. The Karpeles Museums are a national chain with nine in the U.S., specializing in the preservation and display of original, historically significant documents and manuscripts. Museum Hours: Thu.-Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m.
Admission is always free.
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