Born Oxfordshire. In Burma with the army he investigated cholera and dysentery.
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Edmund Alexander Parkes
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Thomas Guy
Founder of Guy's Hospital. Born 7 Pritchard's Alley, Fair Street, Horsleydown. This is now the section of Tower Bridge Road between London City Mission and Tower Bridge Primary School. Â A bookselle...
Person, Benefactor, Medicine, Politics & Administration, Race Issues
Capt. H. A. Fenton, LMSSA (London)
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 (Prince of Wales's) District, 1928-1939. Officer in the Order of St John. SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 19 MARCH, 1946 carries th...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
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...
Sir David Bruce
Born Melbourne, Australia but the family returned to Scotland when he was 5 . Pathologist and microbiologist, investigated sleeping sickness.

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