Ocupation: Statistician
Life: May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910
Birthday: May 12
Death: August 13
All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.
source: Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.1