Receiving House
In 1774 a group of London doctors, concerned at the number of people who were mistakenly being given up for dead, wanted to promote new techniques of resuscitation. They decided to concentrate on d...
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Walter Reed
American army surgeon prominent in proving that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. Born Belroi, Virginia. Died Washington.
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Sir John Milsom Rees
Laryngologist (ear, nose & throat surgeon) to royalty.  Born Wales.  Studied at St Barts, and in Edinburgh.  Surgeon at the Prince of Wales General Hospital in Tottenham and had a private pract...
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First refraction hospital in the world
Formed as the London Refraction Hospital (or the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians), became the Institute of Optometry in 1988.
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Robert Galbraith Reid
A trustee of Lambeth Savings Bank in or after 1903. He seems to have lived an interesting life: In the 1893 'Proceedings of the Old Bailey' we found a witness: ROBERT GALBRAITH REID: "I am a regis...
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Harold Ridley
Ophthalmologist. Born Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. Died in Salisbury, Wiltshire. In WW2, he treated Royal Air Force casualties with eye injuries. He noticed t...
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Riverside, Lewisham Hospital
Large extension to University Hospital Lewisham. The first major NHS building to generate a proportion of its power using photovoltaic roof panels. The Riverside Treatment Centre provides facilitie...
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R. Connon Robertson, LMSSA, LSA
District Surgeon in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1920-1931. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
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James Robinson
Pioneer of anaesthesia and dentistry. Our picture source gives much information about his life and the circumstances of his death. He was born on 22 November 1813 in Southampton, Hampshire. On 12 ...
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Jackie Roe
Jackie (Jacqueline) Roe became a member of Barts Guild in 1989, was elected Hon. Secretary in 1998 and served until 2007. She served on the Guild Committee from 1998 until her death. She had had a ...
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