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Florence Nightingale was born in a rich family.When she was
young she took lessons in music and drawing，and
read a lot of books.She also travelled a great deal with her mother and father.
As a child she felt that visiting sick people was both a
duty and a pleasure.She enjoyed helping them.At last her mind was made up.“I’m
going to be a nurse，” she
decided.“Nursing isn’t the right work for a lady，” her father
told her.
“Then I will make it
so，” she smiled.And she went to learn nursing
in Germany and France.When she returned to England，Florence
started a nursing home for women.
During the Crimean War in 1854 she went with a group of
thirty-eight nurses to the front hospitals.What they saw there was
terrible.Dirt and death were everywhere to be seen and smelled.The officer
there did not want any woman to tell him how to run a hospital，either.But
the brave nurses went to work.
Florence used her own money and some from friends to buy
clothes，beds，medicines and
food for the men.Her only pay was in smiles from the lips of dying soldiers.But
they were more than enough for this kind woman.
After war she returned to England and was honoured for her
services by Queen Victoria.But Florence said that her work had just begun.She
raised money to build the Nightingale Home for Nurses in London.She also wrote
a book on public health，which was
printed in several countries.
Florence Nightingale died at the age of
ninety，still trying to serve others through her
work as a nurse.Indeed，it is because of her that we honour nurses
today.
