Hello, my name is
Paget Brewster. And today we will be discussing
Florence Nightingale, the Mother of Modern Nursing. Wha--that was perfect! - Just rolled
right off your tongue. - Did it not? - [mockingly]
The mutter of mudern nursing. - Did I say
"The mutter of mudern nursing"? - [very slurred]
The mudder of muddern nurding. - Hi, I'm Paget Brewster,
and today, we will be discussing
Florence Nightingale, The Mutter of Modern Nursing. [both laugh] <i> Okay, our story begins
in 1830s England,</i> <i> which is the beginning
of the Victorian Area.</i> <i> - Oh.
- "Era."</i> - I've been there. - Shut it up now. - [chuckles]
- Okay. <i> So Florence Nightingale
is the daughter</i> <i> of a very wealthy
affluent family</i> <i> outside of London.</i> And Florence is doing
what everyone her age is doing. <i> She's a teenager
and her mother says,</i> <i> Oh, this is so great.</i> <i> You're just gonna
study all this stuff.</i> <i> And then you're gonna
marry rich</i> <i> 'cause you're rich,
and you're gonna have kids.</i> And Florence is like, <i> Ugh. I don't think
I want that at all.</i> <i> In fact, I like nursing.</i> <i> I like fixing people
and helping people.</i> <i> And maybe I'm a [bleep]
weirdo, I don't [bleep] know.</i> <i> And she started thinking,
Oh, my God.</i> <i> Maybe God has chosen me
for something greater</i> <i> than just being
a rich [bleep] lady.</i> <i> So she tells her parents,</i> <i> I don't want to run a house.</i> <i> I just want to be
a [bleep] nurse.</i> She wants to be a nurse, but
nursing is not a profession. <i> And at the age of 24,
she leaves the house</i> <i> and starts interning at</i> <i> the Harley Street hospital
in London.</i> <i> And in 1853,
the War of Crimea breaks out.</i> <i> So--</i> - Have you ever
been in that river? - Huh? - "Cry me a" river?
You never been there? - Oh, [bleep] me.
Oh, my God. - [chuckles]
- Oh, God. Why do I want to kick you? - I get that.
- I like you. Anyway. <i> In 1854,
the Secretary of War,</i> <i> Sidney Herbert
writes a letter</i> <i> to Florence Nightingale
saying,</i> <i> Florence, uh,
you're a great nurse.</i> <i> I've heard about your work</i> <i> at the--at the
something hospital</i> <i> I already forgot
the [bleep] name of.</i> <i> - Is that Harley?</i> <i> - Harley Street hospital.
That's right.</i> <i> I need you to go get
a team of nurses together</i> <i> and go and help out
our military doctors.</i> <i> So Florence was like,
Yep, I'm [bleep] on board.</i> So Florence gathers together
38 nurses. <i> And they go to the
Scutari Barracks Hospital</i> <i> in Constantinople,</i> <i> which is a piece of shit.</i> <i> It was rats and lice.</i> <i> It's not even a hospital;
it's a barracks.</i> <i> So they show up,
and the male doctors,</i> <i> they flip the [bleep] out.</i> <i> They're like,
[Bleep] these broads.</i> <i> We don't need any chicks here.</i> God damn it.
This sucks. - Would you like me
to help you? - Yes, please, Derek. You broke it!
[laughs] That's pretty manly.
[laughs] <i> [shimmering tone]</i> Thank you.
Gi-- Don't you-- Give me
my [bleep] booze, bitch! All right, you're
[bleep] in for it now. <i> So the doctor's pissed off,
and Florence is like,</i> <i> Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah,
I get that.</i> <i> It's never happened
before in history,</i> <i> but I'm here now,
my ladies are here now.</i> <i> Florence and her nurses are</i> <i> shocked at the conditions,</i> <i> but they believe in Florence,
and they're like,</i> <i> All right.</i> <i> We're gonna do
whatever she says.</i> <i> Let's go.
Let's clean this up.</i> <i> Two days later,
thousands of soldiers injured</i> <i> from the Battle of Inkerman</i> <i> are brought into
the barracks hospital.</i> <i> This was 3,000 soldiers</i> laying on straw pallets. <i> They are covered in
their own excrement.</i> <i> They are bleeding.</i> <i> So the doctors are like,</i> <i> Oh, shit.
[Bleep] it, we need your help.</i> <i> She ends up being known as
the lady with the lamp,</i> <i> because it was
this British woman</i> <i> there in Crimea,</i> <i> holding a lamp
and visiting soldiers.</i> <i> But one night,</i> <i> while she was
changing the dressing</i> <i> of a man who had had
an arm amputation,</i> <i> an army doctor walked in.</i> <i> And the man was naked.
- But why?</i> - Because they
had no resources. <i> And the doctor
said to Florence,</i> <i> The [bleep] are you doing?
His dick is out.</i> <i> And Florence was like,</i> <i> [Bleep] you.
His [bleep] arm's infected.</i> - Holding for plane.
[distant plane drones] - Oh, my God,
we're holding for a plane. Don't kick me.
- I have a twitch. - I am not a fan of this.
I thought you were a gentleman. - Florence Nightingale.
I thought you liked-- - Oh, I'm a fan of
Florence Nightingale, not you. You ready?
- [chuckles] - Shut up! <i> I'm gonna kick you
in the nuts!</i> <i> Bring your nuts closer</i> <i> so I can kick the--
'cause I'm tired.</i> - [soft laugh] - So all of these soldiers
are amazed <i> this lady with a lamp
was protecting them.</i> <i> And the soldiers were
saying to each other,</i> <i> This is the only person
that's cared about us.</i> <i> And Florence and
her nurses have done</i> <i> everything they can do.</i> <i> Unfortunately,
in the four months</i> <i> that they are first there,
4,777 soldiers die.</i> <i> And Florence says,
I'm so [bleep] angry.</i> <i> I'm so angry we lost
so many men.</i> <i> And I need to find out
why we failed.</i> <i> So the Crimean War ends
in 1856.</i> <i> And Florence
gets back to England.</i> <i> And she is awarded</i> <i> a $250,000
war fund dispensation gift</i> <i> from Queen Victoria.</i> <i> But Queen Victoria says,</i> <i> What happened in Crimea?</i> <i> And Florence says,
I don't [bleep] know.</i> <i> It was bad.</i> <i> And I think I noticed a trend.</i> And I'm gonna have to
[bleep] think about this. She is also really sick. <i> She has the Crimean flu.</i> <i> I mean, bad, coughing, sputum.</i> <i> - What's sputum?</i> <i> - Sputum's an old term
for mucus.</i> <i> - Too much informashe.
- "Informashe"?</i> - [chuckles] - I will not
accept that from you. - Crimea river. - Shut up. [Bleep] you.
I'm drunk. So... <i> Florence goes back to England</i> <i> and just goes to her bed.</i> <i> She's so ill</i> <i> that she stays in bed
for 11 years.</i> <i> - What?
- And it--yes.</i> In those 11 years, <i> she starts studying</i> <i> all of her notes
from Constantinople.</i> <i> And she's like, I know
something was wrong here.</i> <i> And she's building graphs.</i> <i> And she starts
seeing a pattern.</i> <i> And she's like, I think
I figured out what happened.</i> <i> The men
at the Scutari Hospital</i> <i> were ten times
more likely to die</i> <i> from an infectious disease
than from a war wound.</i> <i> That's why we failed.
It was hygiene.</i> <i> And she was like,</i> <i> Cleanliness is
next to godliness.</i> <i> So she presents all
of this analytical data</i> <i> to Queen Victoria.</i> <i> And in 1859, she wrote a book</i> <i> called "Notes on Nursing."</i> <i> Years go by,</i> <i> and Florence uses the money
that Queen Victoria gave her</i> <i> to found the Nightingale
School of Nursing,</i> <i> which is
the first nursing school</i> <i> in the history of ever?</i> Nursing didn't exist
until Florence Nightingale. <i> Also, when Florence
Nightingale is 87 years old,</i> <i> she received
the Order of Merit</i> <i> from Queen Victoria,</i> <i> who still is kicking,
and is like,</i> <i> This [bleep] Florence
is great!</i> <i> She fixed a bunch of shit.</i> <i> I like her moxie.</i> This was the first time
a woman was ever awarded the Order of Merit. <i> And that's a big [bleep] deal.</i> <i> [burps]
- Are you okay?</i> <i> - Yeah, I burped.
- I know.</i> That looked aggressive. - It was not
an aggressive burp. <i> - I mean,
aggressive as in, like,</i> <i> I wanna make sure
you're not gonna throw up.</i> <i> Okay?
- You know I--I'm a lady.</i> <i> - Oh. Curtsy.</i> - [British accent] C--curtsy. <i> Okay, you ready?</i> <i> So Florence Nightingale
was responsible</i> <i> for pioneering an industry</i> <i> and giving women a job
and a purpose</i> that they weren't allowed
at that time. So what she did
was really extraordinary. <i> And it's amazing.</i> <i> 159 years later,</i> <i> her book is still used
in hospitals today.</i> My math is not good. It might be 170-something. - Remember, it's 2019. - Okay, I don't like math. I want you to do it. Not because you're a man.
Well, kind of. - Uh.... <i> [patriotic music]</i>
