The Notes on Nursing is the revolutionary book by one of the founders of modern medicine.
Although Florence Nightingale was ridiculed for her views and approach by many contemporaries
including prominent doctors of her times she stood her ground. She saved many lives from
unnecessary death of hospital infection. Florence Nightingale first started demanding that all
the surgical instruments were boiled and the rooms ventilated. She collected and summed up her
views in a 74-page brochure of notes on nursing in which she described the role of clean water
air food and beds as well as the cleanliness of hospital personnel for patient recovery.
