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| anything yet in utilizing | |
| your invaluable | |
| materials for the | |
| record of "Causes of | |
| Death after Operations". | |
| But I have not. I | |
| do not however despair | |
| of doing something | |
| this year. | |
| We are overwhelmed | |
| with business at the | |
| War O., business | |
| almost hopeless now | |
| that we have lost | |
| our head¹. | |
| I am like Professor | |
| Tyndall², if he had |
1. Miss Nightingale was referring to Sidney Herbert (1810-1861), an ally of hers during the Crimean War and secretary for war during 1859 and 1860. Herbert died in 1861.
2. Professor John Tyndall (1820-1893) was a physicist who made several discoveries about the effects of solar and heat radiation on atmospheric gases. He also demonstrated why the sky is blue, a concept later expounded upon by Lord Rayleigh. Tyndall proved that air which is free of germs does not lead to food decay. For an objective account of Tyndall's life, see the Dictionary of Scientific Biography (pp. 521-524). For a glowing account, see the Dictionary of National Biography (pp. 1358-1363).
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