Subj : Today in History - 1854
To   : All
From : Dave Drum
Date : Sat Oct 21 2023 11:06:00

21 October 1854 - NURSE JOURNEYS TO THE HEART OF BATTLE: Although born
to a life of luxury, Florence Nightingale is devoted to serving others
and begins a long journey to the Ottoman Empire to help soldiers wounded
in the Crimean War. Nurse Nightingale will significantly reduce death
rates, and lay the foundations of the modern nursing profession.

Recent commentators have asserted that Nightingale's Crimean War
achievements were exaggerated by the media at the time, but critics
agree on the importance of her later work in professionalising nursing
roles for women. In 1860, she laid the foundation of professional
nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas'
Hospital in London. It was the first secular nursing school in the world
and is now part of King's College London. In recognition of her
pioneering work in nursing, the Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses,
and the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest international
distinction a nurse can achieve, were named in her honour, and the
annual International Nurses Day is celebrated on her birthday. Her
social reforms included improving healthcare for all sections of British
society, advocating better hunger relief in India, helping to abolish
prostitution laws that were harsh for women, and expanding the
acceptable forms of female participation in the workforce.

Nightingale was a pioneer in statistics; she represented her analysis in
graphical forms to ease drawing conclusions and actionables from data.
She is famous for usage of the polar area diagram, also called the
Nightingale rose diagram, equivalent to a modern circular histogram.
This diagram is still regularly used in data visualisation.

Nightingale was a prodigious and versatile writer. In her lifetime, much
of her published work was concerned with spreading medical knowledge.
Some of her tracts were written in simple English so that they could
easily be understood by those with poor literary skills. She was also a
pioneer in data visualisation with the use of infographics, using
graphical presentations of statistical data in an effective way. Much of
her writing, including her extensive work on religion and mysticism, has
only been published posthumously.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Florence Nightingale's Kedgeree
 Categories: Seafood, Dairy, Rice, Cheese
      Yield: 2 Servings
 
      2 sl White bresd; in cubes
      2 tb Butter; divided
    325 g  (11 oz) cooked rice
           Nutmeg
           Salt & Pepper
    340 g  (12) oz fillet of haddock,
           - cod or cobbler (devilfish)
           Milk; to cover
      3 lg Eggs; boiled
      2 tb Parmesan cheese; grated
           Chives; sliced, garnish
 
  Heat the oven to 190-|C/375-|F.
  
  Cut two slices of white bread into cubes and put on a
  baking sheet with a knob (tb) of butter. Bake for 10
  minutes, tossing once, until crisp and golden.
  
  Gently fry 325g of cooked rice with 1 tb butter, some
  nutmeg and salt and pepper, for about eight minutes.
  Poach a fillet of smoked haddock, cod or cobbler, in
  enough simmering milk to cover, for seven minutes.
  
  Boil three eggs for seven minutes, peel, cut in half
  and scoop out the yolks.
  
  Chop the egg whites and stir through the rice. Crumble
  the yolks and mix with two tablespoons of parmesan.
  
  Drain and flake the fish.
  
  Serve the rice, add the fish, then the yolks.
  
  Serve with croutons and chives.
  
  By: Charles Elm|- Francatelli
  
  RECIPE FROM: https://www.theguardian.com
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
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