Born May 12, 1820, Florence Nightingale is undoubtedly the world’s most famous nurse, known as the “Lady with the Lamp” for her compassionate late-night rounds among the wounded in war. But did you know that she’s the author of many books on medical and nursing subjects, which did much to elevate the image of nurses working in English hospitals, places considered at the time to be places of “degradation and filth.” Florence Nightingale believed she was called to aid the poor, a calling that igni