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Mary Seacole (background info (Her mother was a local healer who practised…

- - - - she successfully treated people with cholera in Jamaica and Panama in the 1840s and 50s.
        
        soldiers in the Crimea were suffering from the diseases she had learnt to cure
        
        After learning of the poor medical care of the British soldiers she travelled to London and applied for the War Office
        
        hoping to be sent to the Crimea, however, her application was rejected
        
        even applied to Florence Nightingale’s organisation, but she was rejected from that too
    - - Using borrowed money, she went out to the Ottoman Empire. She visited Scutari and offered her help to Nightingale, but she refused.
        
        then sailed to Balaclava. She built a ‘hotel’, called the British Hotel, with salvaged materials, which provided a canteen business as well as nursing the injured soldiers
        
        Nightingale thought that Seacole ‘was very kind to the men..and did some good - and made many more drunk.’
        
        Russell, from The Times (in September 1855) wrote that she was ‘warm and successful physician, who doctors and cures all manner of men with extraordinary success. She is always in attendance near the battlefield to aid the wounded and has earned many a poor fellow’s blessing’
    - - did not just work in the British Hotel, though. She regularly went onto the battlefields to treat the injuries
        
        Sometimes she was treating the injured as there was still fighting happening
        
        When Sebastopol fell on 8 September 1855, she was the first woman to enter the city, and she helped the injured there
        
        Some believe that her contributions were equal to that of Nightingales, as Seacole didn’t just nurse the injuries, she disorganised, prescribed and prepared medicine, and did some small surgeries
        
        took part in more hands-on patient care, rather than the more administrative role Nightingale had
- - - - shows that she was held in high regard immediately after the conflict
    - - her contributions to nursing were much less than that of Nightingale.