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SCOUT· 31%36m·2021-03-05·HistoryFlorence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death
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Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played by her distant cousin Helena Bonham Carter) is a hero of modern medicine - but her greatest contribution to combating disease and death resulted from the vivid graphs she made to back her public health campaigns. Her charts convinced the great and the good that deaths due…
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