Florence Nightingale: on feeding an army.
Florence Nightingale's work for the British Army during the Crimean War earned her the well-deserved honor of being considered the mother of modern nursing. Less well recognized is her involvement with the development of nutritional services for the military. A nutrient-intake analysis is developed here based on her recommendations and recipes for army troops. The intake profile is compared with modern recommendations for dietary intake for adequacy of the diet.
Calkins
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Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106.
D004032:Diet; D005502:Food; D049672:History, 19th Century; D008889:Military Personnel; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena