Founded the Camden Road doctors' surgery in the late 1920s in the building where he also lived. He served there as a GP for 60 years, keeping the surgery open through the Blitz. It is one of the few buildings in the area that survived the war and the subsequent redevelopment.
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Dr Abraham I. Silverman
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Dr Silverman
Dr Abraham I. Silverman. Born 29th September 1894. Died 7th July 1997. Foun...
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East End Maternity Hospital
The splendid Lost Hospitals of London gives a full history. In summary: Opened as the Mothers' Lying-In Home in Glamis Road, Shadwell. 1889 moved to number 396 Commercial Road and by WW1 it had ex...
Nightingale Nurse Training School
In full, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. The world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital (St Thomas's) and me...
Royal Army Medical College
Built on the site of Millbank Prison.
London Auxiliary Ambulance Service, station 39
200 volunteer ambulance drivers and personnel served, 1939 - 1945. The picture shows a book (available at Amazon) "At the core of the narrative lies the memories of Station Officer May Greenup who...
Joseph Lister
Born in Upton, Essex. Died in Walmer, Kent. Pioneer in the use of antiseptics in surgery. The medical historian, Ruth Richardson, has an interesting piece in the Lancet reporting on how Agnes his w...
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