"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action which brings results".

Flrorence Nightingale did not like the easy and pleasant occupations of society, and instead of going to parties she visited the London hospitals and studied how sick people were nursed back to health and strength. In those days, hospital nurses were very ignorant, and she was shocked by the roughness and mismanagement that prevailed in English hospitals.
So she went to Germany and studied nursing there and then she went to Paris. At last when she was quite certain she had mastered her subject, she returned to England and began her work of improving the nursing in the hospitals. While she was engaged at this work, a war broke out in Crimea between Russia and England. At first people thought only of the glory of battle and the courage of the soldiers who went singing to their death. But soon other stories came home to England , dreadful stories of wounded man men being to die. England was shocked by these things and everybody cried out that something must be done, something heroic, something to stop at once the sufferings of the brave soldiers. That was done by Florence Nightingale. She went to Crimea with less than forty nurses and in a few months she had succeeded in transforming the nursing of the soldiers.