In Lee Brasseur’s (2005) article, “Florence Nightingale’s Visual Rhetoric in the Rose Diagrams” she analyzed “Nightingale’s use of visual and verbal rhetoric in the design and presentation of her rose diagrams” (p. 161). Brasseur explored Nightingale’s life, career, and work in the Crimean War, her report and annex to the government, her use of statistics, her achievements with visual rhetoric, and her three rose diagrams demonstrating the unsanitary conditions of the military hospital. Brasseur’s purpose was to illustrate how “Nightingale’s rhetoric in her use of the rose diagrams is an important example of how visual abstraction of data can help further an argument” (p. 180). Brasseur’s intended audience was verbal and visual rhetoricians unaware of Nightingale’s technical communication contributions during the Crimean War. Brasseur thoroughly examined the visual rhetoric evident in the rose diagrams and their importance to the health of soldiers.