as quite perceptible in promoting recovery, the being able to see out of a window, instead of looking against a dead wall; the bright colours of flowers; the being able to read in bed by the light of the window close to the bed-head. It is generally said the effect is upon the mind. Perhaps so, but it is not less so upon the body on that account ...."

Nightingale's ideas appear to have been influential on E R Robson, architect to the London School Board, when he wrote: "It is well known that