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Mary seacole
Jamaican woman who setup the British Hotel during the crimean war, this hotel was behind British lines, it was described as a mess table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers. -
Florence Nightingale
Founder of modern nursing, served as a manager of nurses during the crimean war, Known as "the lady with the lamp", Had her own nursing school called St Thomas' hospital -
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Created the first generation of mental asylums, during the civil war of army nurses. -
Clara Barton
A nurse during civil war as well as a teacher, self taught nurse, founder of the American Red Cross -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
One of the first African Americans to graduate from nursing school, co -founded the National Association of colored graduate nurses. which later merged with the National Nurses association. -
Margret Sanger
She started the word birth control as well as opening the first birth control clinic. which later turned into the start of planned parenthood federation of America. -
Bennet Omalu
Nigerian American physician that first discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy also knows as CTE found in football players when there is constant collision of the brain and the skull.
