| Date | 1840 |
| Author | Fry |
| Contribution | Founded a religious nursing order, which promoted hygiene, without knowledge of germs. |
| Reference | Fisher |
| Notes | Elizabeth Fry founded the English Protestant Sisters of Charity (later the English Sisters of Charity). See Fisher's biog. of Lister, p128. An example of institutional nursing prior to Nightingale's work, and prior to germ theory. |
| Category | Miscellany |
| Pathogen Class | General |
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