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By the time of the American Civil War there were already sanitary reforms taking place. Most of them motivated by the work of Florence Nightingale. Through stat
by partycoder 8y ago
By the time of the American Civil War there were already sanitary reforms taking place. Most of them motivated by the work of Florence Nightingale. Through statistical analysis she concluded that bad sanitary conditions led to higher death rates.
- dalbasal 8y agoSure. Modern medicine didn't emerge in a day, and practices in one field hospital would have been better or worse than elsewhere. My point is that scientific medicine as a gold standard, that came 3-4 generations later. In the post war period, that's when modern medicine was an indisputable leader in the field of healing. Also, I think you make an important point on Florence Nightingale. Maybe we should call hygienic meducine practices, "modern scientific nursing" rather than medicine. Incidentally, I wonder if that brief period where female nurses where celebrated might be a period when some traditional practices may have crept back into the modern practices.
- partycoder 8y agoWhat you present is a false dichotomy since nursing and medicine overlap, and those sanitary practices apply not only to nurses but to most healthcare professionals.