12 May

Born in 1936 – Frank Stella, American painter and sculptor.

Above: Gray Scramble, 1969.

Also, born in 1820, Italian-English nurse Florence Nightingale, who said:

Surgery removes the bullet out of the limb, which is an obstruction to cure, but nature heals the wound. So it is with medicine; the function of an organ becomes obstructed; medicine so far as we know, assists nature to remove the obstruction, but does nothing more. And what nursing has to do in either case, is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.