Florence Nightingale wrote the first nursing text book; opened the first training hospital for nurses; transformed the hygienic treatment of patients; influenced the sanitary design of hospitals; and inspired associations such as the Red Cross.

"Teach us to live that we might dread unnecessary time in bed get people up and we may save our patients from an early grave"

Dr Richard Asher, 1942

"Chance favours only the

prepared mind."

Louis Pasteur