title: Florence Nightingale: light to illuminate the world from the woman with the lantern.
abstract: The Ottoman-Russian war of 1853 to 1855 was significant not only as a war, but also in response to a reflex from the West brought with itself novel approaches related to care of patients under severe health conditions. Florence Nightingale and her associates assigned at that time to care for soldiers in Istanbul who were severely ailing as a result of battle conditions were instrumental in the emergence of a hitherto unknown profession. This article examines the progress of events in the London-Istanbul axis that led to this development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Deontology and History of Medicine, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Gulten
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dinc
authors.forename: Sait
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Naderi
authors.forename: Yücel
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kanpolat
mesh_terms: D055699:Cemeteries / Q000266:history*; D047849:Crimean War; D004739:England; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006772:Hospitals, Military / Q000266:history*; D008888:Military Nursing / Q000266:history*; D057214:Ottoman Empire; D014421:Turkey