Preface to the Second Edition viii
Acknowledgements xv
Sketch of Florence Nightingale by Lord Cadogan, 1856 xvi
Introduction 1
1 The Nightingale Fund 5 2 Founding the Nightingale School 20
3 St Thomas's Hospital Moves to Surrey Gardens 45
4 Training Midwifery Nurses 67
5 Poor Law Nursing 84
6 Nursing in Military Hospitals 103
7 District Nursing 121
8 The Nightingale Nurses Abroad 134
9 The Nightingale School Moves to Lambeth 147
10 The Nightingale Training School, 1875-1890 169
11 The Fund Council and Nursing Politics 184
12 The Nightingale Legacy at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 201
