Florence Nightingale (Figure 16.7). Reprinted from OpenStax Microbiology (p. 300), by N. Parker, M. Shneegurt, A.-h. Thi Tu, B. M. Forester, and P. Lister, 2016, Rice University. Copyright 2016 by Rice University.

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A British nurse considered  to be the founder of modern nursing; She carried out early epidemiological studies by keeping detailed records of soldiers' causes and deaths during the Crimean War and analyzed the data using histograms. Her data showed that most of the deaths could be attributed to preventable infectious diseases, leading to many hospital reforms in the British medical system.

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