The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Sir Edward Tyas Cook

CHAPTER IV

ADVISORY COUNCIL TO THE WAR OFFICE (1862-1866) Miss Nightingale and the War Office: her position as consultant. Explanation of the position--Her expert authority on certain questions--Official legatee of Sidney Herbert--Correspondence with Sir George Lewis--Her friends at the War Office. II. Death of the permanent under-secretary--Miss Nightingale and Captain Galton's appointment--Her hopes of re-organization in the War Office. III. The Army Sanitary Commission--Miss Nightingale and improvements in barracks--Nursing in military hospitals. IV. The Army Medical School, and position of army doctors--Miss Nightingale as the doctors' champion--Lord Panmure's attack on the Herbert Hospital--Miss Nightingale's case for the defence. V. Wide range of subjects referred to her advice--The Geneva Convention (1864)-- Suggestions about soldiers' and sailors' pay--Miss Nightingale's methods. VI. The State regulation of vice--Miss Nightingale's efforts on behalf of soldiers' clubs, recreation-rooms, etc. VII. Her researches into the disappearance of aboriginal races. VIII. Spiritual comfort--Memories of heroism in the Crimea 59