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Princes and the Puppet of Printing; Napoleon and the trauma of
industrial change; Chaplin, the public conscience of the movie;
Hitler, the tribal totem of radio; and Florence Nightingale, the
first singer of human woe by telegraph wire.
Florence Nightingale (1820­1910), wealthy and refined
member of the powerful new English group engendered by
industrial power, began to pick up human-distress signals, as a
young lady. They were quite undecipherable at first. They upset
her entire way of life, and couldn’t be adjusted to her image of
parents or friends or suitors. It was sheer genius that enabled
her to translate the new diffused anxiety and dread of life into
the idea of deep human involvement and hospital reform. She
began to think, as well as to live, her time, and she discovered
the new formula for the electronic age: Medicare. Care of the
body became balm for the nerves in the age that had extended