A WOMAN'S EXAMPLE: AND A NATION'S WORK. A TRIBUTE TO FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
London: William Ridgway, 1864. Second edn. 8vo, pp. 90. Bound in slightly nicked printed wraps, a very good copy. The final leaf conatins a list of the officers and members of the US Sanitary Commission. Scarce. Item #58827
Edge was also author of "Slavery Doomed or, the contest between free and slave labour in the United States (1860). The present work is a tribute to the work of Nightingale and the Sanitary Commission. from Wikipedia: "The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) during the American Civil War. It operated across the North, raised an estimated $25 million in Civil War era revenue (assuming 1865 dollars, $399.67 million in 2018) and in-kind contributions to support the cause, and enlisted thousands of volunteers. The president was Henry Whitney Bellows, and Frederick Law Olmsted acted as executive secretary. It was modeled on the British Sanitary Commission, set up during the Crimean War (1853-1856), and from the British parliamentary report published after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ("Sepoy Rebellion")."Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC, DStJ was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers. She gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.[.
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