Chapter IV

ADVISORY COUNCIL TO THE WAR OFFICE
(1862-1866)

Miss Nightingale and the War Office: her position as consultant.
Explanation of the position--Her expert authority on certain
questions--Official legatee of Sidney Herbert--Correspondence with
Sir George Lewis--Her friends at the War Office. II. Death of the
permanent under-secretary--Miss Nightingale and Captain Galton's
appointment--Her hopes of re-organization in the War Office.
III. The Army Sanitary Commission--Miss Nightingale and
improvements in barracks--Nursing in military hospitals. IV. The
Army Medical School, and position of army doctors--Miss Nightingale
as the doctors' champion--Lord Panmure's attack on the Herbert
Hospital--Miss Nightingale's case for the defence. V. Wide range of
subjects referred to her advice--The Geneva Convention (1864)--
Suggestions about soldiers' and sailors' pay--Miss Nightingale's
methods. VI. The State regulation of vice--Miss Nightingale's
efforts on behalf of soldiers' clubs, recreation-rooms, etc. VII.
Her researches into the disappearance of aboriginal races. VIII.
Spiritual comfort--Memories of heroism in the Crimea 59

CHAPTER V
HELPERS, VISITORS, AND FRIENDS
(1862-1866)

The years of Miss Nightingale's most trying work. Her helpers--The
indispensable Dr. Sutherland--His constant service--Miss
Nightingale as task-mistress--Her method of "conversation" by
written notes. II. Seclusion from her friends--Her strict rule of
life--Letters to Madame Mohl--Visit from Garibaldi (1864)--Her
account of the interview--Appreciation of Abraham Lincoln--Death of
Lord Palmerston. III. Miss Nightingale's scheme for investments by
the working-classes in small freeholds--Correspondence with
Mr. Villiers and Mr. Gladstone. IV. Sympathetic letters to friends
--Literary correspondence with M. Mohl. V. Friendship with
Mr. Jowett--Their correspondence--Miss Nightingale's work for the
army and for India an accidental "call"--Her yearnings for hospital
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