The Spanish Military Nursing at the time of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

Abstract

This article refers to the trajectory of the Spanish Military Nursing from the fifteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, highlighting the boom that had during the eighteenth century within the Royal College of Surgery of the Cadiz Navy, in which for the first time in history the studies of Medicine and Surgery were unified in the same degree. The innovations of the medical sciences continue during the second half of the nineteenth century especially those inspired by Florence Nightingale to start her revolution in Nursing , the avatars of Spanish military nurses in the convulsive 19th century, and the regulatory advances experienced after the 1868 Revolution. A memory continues to be followed by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul who arrived at military hospitals in 1870 at a time when infections, especially tuberculosis, caused high mortality in the military population. It is finalized with a tribute to military nursing and conclusions as reflections.