Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Santa Filomena states, Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room,” which describe Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale, who was born on May 12, 1820 and died on August 13, 1910, was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. Florence Nightingale was remembered for her work as a nurse during Crimean war and contribution towards the reform or the sanitary conditions in the military field hospitals. During the Crimean War the soldiers were poorly cared