Florence Nightingale; reproduction; Library of Congress/Public domain In 2020 Her Lamp Burns BrightlyMay 12, 2020 is the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of the nursing profession as we know it today. Born May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy, she served selflessly during the Crimean War (1854–1856) and became known as The Lady With the Lamp. By her constant insistence on hygienic
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‘Be Yourself–Unless You Can Be Batman–Then Be Batman’
This is a re-print from November 2013. Please note that I was still using the Placidus House system at the …
Hygeia, The Asteroid of Health
The image of Hygeia is a constant in modern times. Although we do not always recognise her for the goddess that she is, perhaps there are more images of her in the media than any other Greek goddess except Aphrodite. In the Greek pantheon, she is one of the daughters of Aesculapius, the doctor. One sister is Panacea “cure-all”, another is Iaso (recuperation) and she is, of course, the goddess of hygiene — which frankly sounds rather dreary. However, the Greeks didn’t think so. They probably did not mean OCD style disinfection, after all no one really knew about germs […]
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