Preface to the Second Edition viii Acknowledgements xv Sketch of Florence Nightingale by Lord Cadogan, 1856 xvi Introduction 1 1 The Nightingale Fund 5 2 Founding the Nightingale School 20 3 St Thomas's Hospital Moves to Surrey Gardens 45 4 Training Midwifery Nurses 67 5 Poor Law Nursing 84 6 Nursing in Military Hospitals 103 7 District Nursing 121 8 The Nightingale Nurses Abroad 134 9 The Nightingale School Moves to Lambeth 147 10 The Nightingale Training School, 1875-1890 169 11 The Fund Council and Nursing Politics 184 12 The Nightingale Legacy at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 201.