Holistic approach to infection control and healing: the Florence Nightingale story
Journal: Microbiology Australia
Year: 2014

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), with a life devoted to the care of the sick and wounded, is the founder of modern nursing. She was named after the city 'Florence' in Italy where she was born. She belonged to a rich and aristocratic family in England and with the encouragement of her father she received education in mathematics, religion, history and philosophy of education, as well as the languages, Latin, German, French and Italian. Rejecting authority and religious dogmas, she became a pione