15th February 2016 by What's What Team

Florence Nightingale’s friend – Athena

Florence Nightingale is renowned for introducing nursing. She was a health reformer. Her studies showed that the vast majority of British soldiers in the Crimean War died due to disease and poor hygiene, not enemy bullets. She once rescued a baby owl and named it Athena. She used to carry it in her pocket wherever she went.

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