Obviously a large part of the museum is about Florence Nightingale's time in the Crimea. When news of high British casualties in the early battles of the war got back to Britain, the Secretary of War wrote to Miss Nightingale asking her to organise the introduction of female nurses into the Barrack Hospital at Scutari; six days later she was on her way to the war. Mr Monkey examined the chest of medicine bottles she took with her, and looked at a life size display of part of a ward at Scutari. If you wait a little, the lighting changes to reveal another scene, with surgeons working on a injured soldier.
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