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How Florence Nightingale changed hospital design

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It turns out that cramming patients into a dark, unventilated box is a terrible idea. Nightingale completely completely upended the medical establishment by suggesting that facilities should actually have massive windows, fresh air, and separate pavilions. She had to basically fight the entire institutional administration to prove that daylight wasn't a myth.

How Florence Nightingale changed hospital design
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