Sure. 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 m

Sure. 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.