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Book · 1863 · age 43

Proposal for Improved Statistics of Surgical Operations

by Florence Nightingale

Kept from archive.org · 2 files · 1.1 MBCall number NIG B1863.01

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Public domainNightingale's own text, as far as the record shows: its edition and notes name no translator or editor.Basis: author death year 1910, under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.
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Florence Nightingale, Proposal for Improved Statistics of Surgical Operations (1863). Long Keeping, call number NIG B1863.01. https://longkeeping.com/florence-nightingale/proposal-for-improved-statistics-of-surgical-operations/
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ia-b21309188-b21309188.pdfmain PDF scan 1.1 MB archive.org 330d0b8d4f25ea7220bdaf08b2bd52e5097f123de21be455b2b2f6c274d1d9cd Public domainNightingale's own text, as far as the record shows: its edition and notes name no translator or editor.Basis: author death year 1910, under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.Held in the archive: its images await the archive's likeness review. Its source (another site)
ia-b21309188-b21309188_djvu.txt OCR text 14 KB archive.org 79de2b1a818783bbf3065fee83df6ab6343e3493bb67a1231fe29ebc13c2aad7 Public domainNightingale's own text, as far as the record shows: its edition and notes name no translator or editor.Basis: author death year 1910, under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 (another site). Attribution: Internet Archive (contributor: King's College London, Foyle Special Collections Library) (another site).The Internet Archive's site-wide terms ask for scholarship and research use. This library serves the file because it is labelled public domain, and credits the Internet Archive as its source.From the Internet Archive (another site)