Article ID: CBB212712812

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) and Sir John Forbes (1787–1861): Neighbours in Old Burlington Street, Westminster (2015)

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The year 2010 marks the centenary of the birth of Florence Nightingale and will, no doubt, be universally remembered. Her life and nursing career have recently been fully described by Bostridge. It is less well known that her neighbour from November 1856 was the distinguished Scottish physician Sir John Forbes MD Edin FRCP Lond FRS DCL Oxon. Although they never met, they exchanged copies of each other’s books and shared a mutual respect.

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Authors & Contributors
Simões, Ana Luís
Helen Varney
Joyce E. Thompson
Schuster, William J.
José Alberto Silva
Agnew, Robin
Concepts
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Medicine
Societies; institutions; academies
Correspondence and corresponding
Social networks
Knowledge circulation
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
21st century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Germany
Philadelphia, PA
Lisbon (Portugal)
Canary Islands
Balearic Islands (Spain)
Institutions
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (1760-)
Prussian Academy of Sciences
Academia das Ciências, Lisbon
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