A half-Jamaican " doctress" who used herbal remedies, Seacole traveled to the Crimea under her own steam and set up a hospital on the peninsula to treat sickened officers.

西克尔是有牙买加血统的“女医”，使用草药治疗，她独克里米亚，在半岛上建立了家医院，治疗病的军官。