Nightingale vs Seacole: whose care crossed the battlefield?

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NIGHTINGALE vs MARY SEACOLE go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

NIGHTINGALE

I reformed the ward itself, Mrs. Seacole - clean air, statistics, sanitation - and my rose diagrams proved that filth killed more soldiers than the enemy's guns.

MARY SEACOLE

Diagrams are cold comfort to a bleeding man, Miss Nightingale; I rode out to the trenches and dressed wounds where the shells still fell.

NIGHTINGALE

And I nursed the aftermath at Scutari, where thousands would have rotted without order - compassion without system is just noble chaos.

MARY SEACOLE

Then let history keep your lamp lit indoors, madam, while mine burned out where the men actually fell.

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