long-reforming

Updated: May 25, 2025

The ghost of Florence Nightingale seems to move beside us, watching contentedly what has come of all that long-reforming labour, dealing with the health, the sanitation, the food and equipment of the soldier, in which she played her part; and one might fancy the great shade pausing specially beside the wired-in space labelled "Medical Comforts," and generally known as "The Cage."

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The War on All Fronts: England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend