Nightingale vs Seacole short term and long term developments

who was most important to medicine in the short and long term, florence Nightingale or mary Seacole?

short term

Nightingale

• improved conditions at scutari- cleaner wards, patients well fed, better sanitation caused death rate to fall from 42% to 2%
• more of a organiser than a actual nurse- didn't treat patients hands on

seacole

• set up a medical store that provided medicines for soldiers to buy
• set up the British Hotel which provided food, medical treatments and company
• treated soldiers on the battlefeild
• did more actual nursing than Nightingale

short term- most important

mary seacole was the most important in…