
Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death
From Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Published 3/5/2021

From Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Published 3/5/2021
Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played by her distant cousin Helena Bonham Carter) is a hero of modern medicine - but her greatest contribution to combating disease and death resulted from the vivid graphs she made to back her public health campaigns.Her charts convinced the great and the…