Causes of death in the Crimean War. Chart produced by the British Nurse Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) showing the causes of army mortality during the Crimean War (1854-1856). It shows that far more soldiers died from preventable epidemic diseases (blue) than from wounds inflicted on the battlefield (red) or other causes (black). To reduce the deaths from preventable diseases Nightingale advocated light and airy hospitals with clean staff and good sanitary engineering. - Stock Image C033/6340

In copper, measures 28.0 mm wide; weighs 11.5 (without the suspension and connecting link). The obverse shows monograms of the two emperors, Nicholas I and Alexander II. The medal is outstanding, excellent condition. The obverse shows literally no wear detectable by the naked eye; the details of the monograms and lettering are pristine and exceptionally crisp. The reverse has a few miniscule contact marks and dings and a single very mild, barely noticeable bump to the raised edge at approx. 8 Oclock. The recessed field retains nice mint luster on both sides. There is very attractive even toning the copper (dark bronze) throughout, no pitting, blemishes or significant oxidation spots. The medal comes on a Soviet era suspension with new St. Andrew ribbon in moir silk. Est. 1856, this medal was officially known in Russia as the Medal for the Eastern War. The dark bronze medal was awarded to all military ranks, medical personnel and military chaplains who served during the time of the Crimean War ...

NAPIER, May 25... Dr Edward Menzies, aged 84. Deceased was a Crimean veteran and was a surgeon in Napier until 1896 when he retired owing to advanced age. ...

A Crimean veteran, Mr Richard Dewe, has just passed away. Born at Sutton Courtney, Berkshire, he enlisted in May, 1854, in tho 23rd Regiment Foot, the Welsh (sic*) Fusiliers, and earned the Crimean medal with bars for Sebastopol, Balaclava and Alma, and also the Turkish Crimean medal. ...

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The concept of the prevention of the spread of infection in hospitals goes back to a least 1771 when Thomas Percival wrote Internal Regulation of Hospitals and there was a move to provide isolation for patients with infectious diseases and to improve the sanitation of the facilities. In subsequent generations as scientific knowledge improved concerning the spread of disease, new techniques were used to reduce the level of infections occurring in the institutions. Additional concern was shown during the Civil War, Crimean War, World War I, and World War II because of the continuing high level of infections in patients.. In addition, microorganisms constantly change and therefore new problems arise. For example, in 1954 in courses in medical microbiology taught in colleges, Staphylococcus aureus was used as an indicator organism. Shortly thereafter it was discovered that one of the serotypes had become resistant to penicillin and then became a hospital problem for infection control. Methicillin ...

It has been applied repeatedly for the title of goddesses, namely Diana and Ceres, as well as other deities of the light, earth, and day. Alma was used classically in connotation as a way to reflect the traditional female roles in providing nurture,[2] following its derivation from its Latin root. It was introduced with minimal usage during the Italian Renaissance, as the likely result of a character by Edmund Spenser in his poem The Faerie Queene. Alma, who is the head of the House of Temperance, is considered to parallel the spirit metaphorically.[9] On 20 September 1854 the Battle of Alma, named after the Alma River nearby, which was a war between the French, English, and Ottoman empires and the Russian empire[10] was fought and ended. This battle is typically considered to be the first battle of the Crimean War. Alma is the Crimean Tatar word for apple. The name had limited use for females prior to the war, and afterwards it began appearing in birth registers for both male and female, ...

Crimea is a region in the south of Ukraine. The Crimean Peninsula is connected to the rest of the Ukraine by a narrow neck of land, making it more like an island with a natural land bridge than simply a bit of land jutting out into the sea. The peninsula was the site of the Crimean War, between 1854 and 1856, and gave rise to modern nursing, live war reporting,and the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade and the Balaclava(woollen head garment)..

The Whitworth rifle was arguably the first long-range sniper rifle in the world.[1] Designed by Sir Joseph Whitworth, a prominent British engineer, it used barrels with hexagonal polygonal rifling, which meant that the projectile did not have to bite into the rifling grooves as was done with conventional rifling. His rifle was far more accurate than the Pattern 1853 Enfield, which had shown some weaknesses during the recent Crimean War. At trials in 1857, which tested the accuracy and range of both weapons, Whitworths design outperformed the Enfield at a rate of about three to one. Also, the Whitworth rifle was able to hit the target at a range of 2,000 yards, whereas the Enfield could only manage it at a distance of 1,400 yards.[2] During the American Civil War, the Confederate sharpshooters equipped with Whitworth rifles were tasked to eliminate Union field artillery crews, and were responsible for killing Major General John Sedgwick - one of the highest-ranking officers killed during the ...

Translated by Michael Pursglove and Gareth Owen.. On the 14 November 1854, during the Crimean War, the British warship Black Prince sank without trace in the Black Sea just off the coast of Balaklava.(1) Mankind keeps a register of all the ships which sail the high seas of the world. The Black Prince was a British troop-carrier, the first iron-built vessel in the Navy, a two-and-a-half- thousand-ton, four-boilered ship which was also fitted out with sails. The ship approached the Crimean coast on 12 November 1854. Balaklava bay was occupied by the allied fleet which was at war with Russia and laying siege to Sebastopol. On 12 November the Black Prince dropped anchor in the outer Balaklava roads and extinguished its boilers. The ship had brought from England four million pounds sterling (forty million Russian gold roubles) to pay the troops. Queen Victoria, the Englishwoman who had tricked Russia, had sent a diamond sword on the ship to present to the British commander.. At midday on 14 November ...

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Right from Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War to Fatu Kekula who helped treat Ebola patients in Liberia, nurses have been at the forefront of any healthcare crisis. They are the critical link in the healthcare system that not only helps people recover back to health, but become the biggest support for the family of the sick.. During this pandemic, the roles of nurses have changed and brought great responsibilities and a lot of challenges. A typical day in the life of a nurse on the Covid war front is filled with great uncertainty and a constant marathon. Every single shift has the potential to be momentous, exhilarating, exhausting, energizing, or all of the above. On any given day, nurses can see people at their weakest and most vulnerable, or at their strongest and most resolute. Moreover, a single breach in infection prevention practice can cause life-threatening infections to any patient, especially for critical Covid patients who are immune-compromised, considering the use of steroids, ...

Right from Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War to Fatu Kekula who helped treat Ebola patients in Liberia, nurses have been at the forefront of any healthcare crisis. They are the critical link in the healthcare system that not only helps people recover back to health, but become the biggest support for the family of the sick.. During this pandemic, the roles of nurses have changed and brought great responsibilities and a lot of challenges. A typical day in the life of a nurse on the Covid war front is filled with great uncertainty and a constant marathon. Every single shift has the potential to be momentous, exhilarating, exhausting, energizing, or all of the above. On any given day, nurses can see people at their weakest and most vulnerable, or at their strongest and most resolute. Moreover, a single breach in infection prevention practice can cause life-threatening infections to any patient, especially for critical Covid patients who are immune-compromised, considering the use of steroids, ...

Sometimes it is difficult to understand the scope of American military power relative to that of the rest of the world. This graphic illustrates Americas Hospital Ships, and those of the rest of the world. Each image is an accurate depiction of the ship as seen from the side, all to a common scale. Many centuries before our era, the Athenian fleet included a vessel called Therapia, while in the Roman fleet was a ship bearing the name Aesculapius. Their names have been taken by some authors as indicating that they were hospital ships. All we know with certainty is that at the beginning of the XVIIth century it became customary for naval squadrons to be accompanied by special vessels entrusted with the task of taking the wounded on board after each engagement. It was, however, not until the second half of the XIXth century that the practice really developed. During the Crimean War, more than 100,000 sick and wounded were repatriated to England on board hospital transports. Thereafter, no ...

Recently I have been thinking a lot about the Crimean War. If you want to know why, the answer lies in what is happening in the Ukraine. The situation there is complex and disturbing, with implications for both Western Europe and Russia. Sometimes policy-makers are aware of history; sometimes they arent; but those who disregard history altogether tend to repeat the mistakes their predecessors made. I have a hunch we may be about to do exactly that with regard to the Ukraine.. In the West we have tendency to make an idol of democracy, but that sometimes leads us to applaud essentially undemocratic processes. I myself believe that democracy is the best form of government available to us, but I think we are often selective about the value we place on other peoples democracies. The policies of the Muslim Brotherhood do not appeal to me personally, but as a democrat, I am ambivalent about the situation in Egypt. Was Mr Morsi legitimately elected or not; and if he was, shouldnt the West be ...

On 15 February 1855 the French frigate was carrying French troops in the Crimean War when she was caught in a storm in the Strait of Bonifacio near the Lavezzi Islands. Lost in a thick fog, a gust of wind drove her into rocks on Lavezzo, and about midnight she sank. Her complement was 301 and she was carrying 392 troops. No-one survived ...

Riveting! I literally thought I was in 1855 London. With this mesmerizing series, David Morrell doesnt just delve into the world of Victorian England-he delves into the heart of evil, pitting one mans opium-skewed brilliance against a society where appearances are everything, and the most vicious killers lurk closer than anyone thinks. -Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of Crash & Burn and The Perfect Husband. What the Victorian Experts Say:. Even better than Murder as a Fine Art. A truly atmospheric and dynamic thriller. I was fascinated by how Morrell seamlessly blended elements from Thomas De Quinceys life and work. The solution is a complete surprise. -Grevel Lindop, The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. The scope is remarkable. Florence Nightingale, the Crimean War, regicide, the railways, opium, the violence and despair of the London rookeries, medical and scientific innovations, arsenic in the food and clothing-all this makes the Victorian world vivid. The way ...

during the Crimean War, 1854-56. [In this appendix, dates are in the old Russian style, 12 days behind the western calendar M.C.] 1829, July 1. Markov 14th, Nikolai Mikhailovich, cornet, promoted from junker [officer candidate] in the regiment; 31 May 1859 assigned to the army cavalry branch as lieutenant colonel (served as an officer in the regiment for almost 30 years). 1833, January 2. Dobrovol skii, Anton Antonov, major from His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich s Hussar Regiment; 25 October 1856 as colonel assigned to command General-Adjutant Prince Chernishev s Lancer Regiment. 1833, March 21. von Focht 3rd, Fedor Bogdanovich, major from the Irkutsk Hussar Regiment; died 13 January 1856, in the rank of colonel. 1837, April 23. Sakovnin 1st, Akinfii Petrov, cornet, promoted from standard-junker in the regiment; left at the end of 1854, as captain. 1838, November 4. Sakovnin 3rd, Ivan Petrov, cornet, promoted from standard-junker in the regiment; 21 March 1840 released from ...

Short and snappy, the smooth-faced lieutenant-colonel who had been appointed deputy inspector-general of hospitals for the British army would butt heads with non-other than the chaste, indefatigable Florence Nightingale. A heroine of Victorian England who was celebrated as the pioneer of nursing during the Crimean War, Nightingale wrote to her sister about their clash, He behaved like a brute… the most hardened creature I have ever met.. His name was Dr. James Miranda Barry. Obsessed with hygiene, when inspecting his troops he would bark, Dirty beasts! Go and clean yourselves! The standards of even the lady of the lamp Nightingale were not high enough for Dr. Barry, and I can just imagine the differential Nightingale trying not to show her fuming as the doctor berated her in front of her subordinates. Unlikely as it may seem, this short-tempered brute turned out to be the champion of women, or more specifically, of pregnant woman - a reason that became more understandable only after ...

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was at the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck

dislike to slavery. He reminds the North of the Czars devotion since the Crimean war, to the great work of abolishing serfage in his vast dominions, and claims his consequent sympathy with the United States , in a struggle forced upon them for the extension of slavery. He also explains with more truth than in the other case, the grounds of the Czars solicitude for preserving the power of the United S ...

In 1854-55 Russia lost to Britain, France and Turkey in the Crimean War, which was fought primarily in the Crimean peninsula, and to a lesser extent in the Baltic. Since playing a major role in the defeat of Napoleon, Russia had been regarded as militarily invincible, but against a coalition of the great powers of Europe, the reverses it suffered on land and sea exposed the decay and weakness of Tsar Nicholas regime. When Tsar Alexander II ascended the throne in 1855, desire for reform was widespread. A growing humanitarian movement attacked serfdom as inefficient. In 1859, there were more than 23 million serfs in usually poor living conditions. Alexander II decided to abolish serfdom from above, with ample provision for the landowners, rather than wait for it to be abolished from below in a revolutionary way that would hurt the landowners.[33]. The emancipation reform of 1861 that freed the serfs was the single most important event in 19th-century Russian history, and the beginning of the end ...

In 1854, Florence Nightingale went to the Crimean War. There it was important to separate seriously wounded soldiers from less-seriously wounded. Nightingale reduced death rates from 40% to 2% by creating the concept of intensive care. Because of a polio epidemic, Bjørn Ibsen established the first intensive care unit in Copenhagen in 1953.[1] Patients with polio require more ventilation than normal; this is why Ibsen set up a special unit for them. The first person to use this idea in the United States was Dr. William Mosenthal, a surgeon at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.[2] ...

Lead: When Florence Nightingale and her fellow nurses arrived to care for British and allied soldiers in the Crimean War, the military...

The region hasnt dominated headlines for nearly 160 years, but the Crimean War played a huge role in the Western zeitgeist of the time. And its cultural and technological impacts still reverberate.

Chronic fatigue syndrome was first proposed as a diagnostic label in 1988 to classify a disorder characterised by severe fatigue and exhaustion after minimal physical and mental effort accompanied by other unexplained somatic symptoms.1 It was introduced partly as an acceptable clinical alternative to the term myalgic encephalomyelitis, which described a similar presentation and had been coined in 1956 in the aftermath of an outbreak of illness among the nursing and medical staff of the Royal Free Hospital.2 The condition was widely assumed to be a new addition to the medical scene. In the popular press, and occasionally in the professional publications, attempts have been made to explain chronic fatigue syndrome as a product of the unwelcome features of modern life, such as pollution, stress, working practices, and new infections.. Attention has recently been drawn to the often striking similarities between chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis and the condition formerly known ...

Putin justified his annexation of Crimea in predominantly spiritual language, asserting that Crimea has sacred meaning for Russia, like the Temple Mount for Jews and Muslims, and that Crimea is the spiritual source of the formation of the multifaceted but monolithic Russian nation . . . It was on this spiritual soil that our ancestors first and forever recognized their nationhood. Religious impulses have long animated Russian attitudes toward Crimea. Few remember today that the Crimean War of the 1850′s was fought by Czarist, Orthodox Russia against the Ottoman Turks (the Muslim superpower of the day), who were allied with Great Britain (which entered the war in order to keep Europe from being dominated by Russia) and Roman Catholic France (which was, among other things, conflicting with Moscow over whether the Roman Catholic or the Orthodox Church would control the holy sites in the Holy Land) over religious divisions as much as anything else with Russia, then as now, viewing itself as ...

I decided to take a deeper look into our museum collection and found that it began with William Bauer, a German inventor during the Crimean War in 1865 who was the first to try and capture images underwater by taking photos through the portholes in the submarine. Also in the same year, according to the British Society of Underwater Photographers, the first underwater photograph was taken by William Thompson using a housed plate camera that was lowered to the seabed and operated from a boat. Thompson was inspired by the possibility of using underwater photography to assess the damage done to bridges in times of flood. However it wasnt until 1893 that the first real underwater photograph was taken by Dr. Louis Boutan. An article by John Humphrey in Science states that Dr.Boutan earned a doctorate in sciences from the University of Paris and had his first diving experience in Banyuls-sur-Mer when they invited him to use the laboratorys diving suit. He, like many divers, found himself fascinated ...

George Buchanan (1827-1906) was the first Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University, occupying the chair from 1874 to 1900. Buchanan was the son of the anatomist and University alumnus Moses Buchanan. He studied at the University, graduating MA in 1846, and at the University of St Andrews, graduating MD in 1849. During the Crimean War, Buchanan served as a Civil Surgeon with the British Army. In 1860 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy at Andersons College and in August that year he was appointed visiting surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in preference to the other candidate for the position, Joseph Lister. He held the infirmary appointment until 1868, and from 1870 to 1874.. After his appointment to the University chair in 1874, Buchanan became visiting surgeon at the new Glasgow Western Infirmary. He was short in stature and is said to have operated while standing on a a section of tree trunk, which became known to his students as Buchanans Cheese. He was a pioneer of facial ...

Other women who inspire us even today are Joan of Arc, the patron saint of France, who at the age of just 17, inspired a French revolt against the occupation of the English and successfully led the French to victory at Orleans.. Another was Sojourner Truth a feisty African-American abolitionist and womens rights campaigner who lived at the same time that Florence Nightingale was serving in the Crimean war. Florences passion and dedication to the profession changed public perception about nursing.. Marie Curie the Polish/French scientist was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize and the first person to win the Nobel Prize for two separate categories - one for research into radioactivity and the second for Chemistry.. Helen Keller the deaf and blind American Social Activist who campaigned tirelessly on behalf of deaf and blind people is one of those who taught us determination.. So, have women like Mother Teresa an Albanian nun and charity worker who devoted her life to the service of the ...

Most people know Florence Nightingale was a compassionate and legendary nurse, but they dont know her full story. This riveting biography explores the exceptional life of a woman who defied the stifling conventions of Victorian society to pursue what was considered an undesirable vocation/5(33).. Most people know Florence Nightingale was a compassionate and legendary nurse, but they dont know her full story. This riveting biography explores the exceptional life of a woman who defied the stifling conventions of Victorian society to pursue what was considered an undesirable : HMH Books.. Middle school book describing Florence Nightingales entire life. Her greatest notoriety was her nursing during the Crimean war.. She had to overcome much discrimination to become a nurse. It was not considered an honorable profession. She changed the worlds view on the nursing profession/5. The Life of Florence Nightingale Lea Hurst, the summer home of the Nightingale family Florence Nightingale was born in to ...