A hospital specialising in intestinal disorders. Founded by Frederick Salmon to treat patients with anorectal disorders (anus and rectum) - always good to learn a new word. It was one of the first specialist hospitals. Now part of the NHS.
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St Mark's Hospital
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St Mark's Hospital
Site of St Mark's Hospital, founded by Frederick Salmon, 1835. City of London
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Sir Patrick Manson
Born in Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire. Physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitoes and suggested that mosquitoes also spread malaria. Founder of the original London School of ...
2 memorials
German Hospital
Opened with 12 beds in 1845. The local German community was very large at this time and nurses were recruited from Germany from the Kaiserworth Institute. Florence Nightingale was so inspired by th...
2 memorials
James Parkinson
Physician, geologist, political activist. Parkinson's disease is his. Born 1 Hoxton Square. Died at home, 3 Pleasant Row, Kingsland Road.
1 memorial
Finsen light cure
The Faroese/Icelandic physician, Niels Ryberg Finsen, (1860 - 1904) won a Nobel Prize for inventing this while working in Denmark. Â After a time it was found to be dangerous rather than healing.
1 memorial
1 memorial