Florence Nightingale Came Home From War Permanently Bedridden. Then She Spent 40 Years Changing the World From a Single Room.
In brief: Most people know Florence Nightingale as the “Lady with the Lamp” who nursed soldiers in the Crimean War. Almost nobody knows what came after — that she returned home in 1856 with a chronic illness that left her bedridden for the rest of her life, and that from that single room she invented…