Henry VIII brought two organisations together in 1540 to form the Company of Barber-Surgeons. The surgeons broke away in 1745, bought the property in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1797 and became the Royal College of Surgeons in 1800.
Their Lincoln's Inn building, on the south side, contains the seriously creepy Hunterian Museum.
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Bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons
This Oak tree (Quercus robur) was planted by Barry Jackson, President, The Ro...
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John Hunter, Lincoln's Inn Fields
{The front of the stone plinth is inscribed:} Hunter {On a plaque attached ...
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W. A. Rushmere
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1909-1951. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
City Pest House
From Islington:The Pest House was built in 1594, in the fields where Bath Street is now situated. It served to isolate those suffering from such incurable or infectious diseases as leprosy and the ...
1 memorial
Royal Northern Hospital
Founded in 1856 by Dr. Sherard Freeman Statham (dismissed from University College Hospital for smacking a patient's bottom) at 11 York Road (later York Way), and expanded into numbers 9 and 10. 18...
10 memorials
Alice Ball
From LSHTM: "... African American chemist who developed an injectable oil extract which became the treatment for leprosy until the 1940s. While chaulmoogra oil had previously been used for leprosy,...
1 memorial
British Lying-in Hospital
Initially called the Lying-In Hospital for Married Women. ( 'Lying-in' is an old term for childbirth). By the beginning of the 20th century it was experiencing financial difficulties which led to ...
1 memorial
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