Nurse and midwife. Trained at the British Lying-in Hospital. She was the first superintendent, and later inspector general, of the Queen's Jubilee Institute for District Nursing at the London Hospital.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Dame Rosalind Paget
The plaque gives 1739 as the foundation date but sources give 1749.
A physician specialising in kidney problems, he was credited with the discovery of Bright's Disease (now called Glomerulonephritis or Nephritis) through his research on patients who exhibited drops...
Lived in and ran his medical practice from a house at 289, Cambridge Heath Road. BMJ 19 March 1864 reports: "APOTHECARIES' HALL. On March 10th, the following Licentiates were admitted:- Brotherton...
OM, FRS, Nobel Laureate. Â Â Born Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Â His pioneering wartime research on tissue grafting won him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1960. Â Not a fan of psychoanalysis - ...
A nurse, victim of a flying bomb on Kingston Hospital on 5 July 1944. We thank Mike Coleman who drew our attention to this lady on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. Further research ...
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