Florence Nightingale And Mary Seacole Flashcards
Give different examples of when men tried to prevent women making progress in medicine?
For 5 years after 1876, the Royal College of Surgeons refused to allow anyone to take exams in midwifery as a way of preventing women from learning alongside men
Edinburgh university said it would only give medical degrees to men
Make students at Middlesex hospitals protested that Elizabeth garret should not be allowed to attend lecture
What law was passed in 1876?
Passing all medical qualifications to women
Describe hospitals in the early 1800s
Cramped, stuffy wards helped infections to spread quickly
Death rates from infection wife high, because wards were not cleaned often enough of effectively.
Nursing staff were not rained
There were few toilets and the sewage system was poor; Infections spread
Nurses criticised for being dirty or drunk
What did Florence discover when she arrived at Crimea and what did she do about it?
She was appalled by the dirty conditions
She concentrated on cleaning the hospital and patients
She wrote to the British government
Consequences of bad conditions were fever, cholera, gangrene, lice, bugs, fleas
Death rate in the hospital went from 40 % to 2 %
What happened to Florence after the Crimean War?
Returned to Britain a national hero and this helped her raise money to set up her first nursing school
Training focused on hygiene and cleanliness to prevent infections diseases spreading in hospitals
Her books; notes on nursing (1859) and notes on hospitals (1863) were the basis for training nurses
Where did Mary Seacole gain more expirence?
In Panama where she showed people how to des, with an outbreak of cholera p, isolating patients and cleaning out dirt. She also treated gunshot wounds
In the Crimean War, what did Mary do?
In 1854 she set up a British hotel providing food and rinks to the soldiers. She also treated sickness and tended the wounded on the battlefield
Her bravery in helping the wounded while fighting made her highly respected among the soldiers and popular
What happened to Mary Seacole after the Crimean War?
Returned to Britain without money
Ex-soldiers and the times newspaper tried to raise funds to help her but this failed when the organising company went bankrupt
After publishing her memoirs she was better off but nobody in Britain tried to use or learn from her medical skills
