Founded by Thomas Guy in concept in 1721 but it was not until 6 January 1725 that the first sixty patients were admitted.  have a good summary of the history.  Guy's and St Thomas' are considered the two oldest teaching hospitals in London.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Guy's Hospital
{Upper plaque:} In memory of Bermondsey GP, Dr. Salter, 1873 - 1945, who devo...
Alfred Salter Playground Dr Alfred Salter studied medicine at Guy's Hospital ...
(In the circle at the centre of the ‘pediment’, with a trumpeting angel on ei...
{Left hand plaque:} The Nightingale badge awarded between 1925 - 1996. {Cent...
That's all well and good, but was there a maze? All that text and not a word...
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Guy's Hospital
Jonson seems to have had a special ability with elegies for children, not lea...
{On a nearby modern plaque:} The London Bridge niche. Portland stone. The sto...
This is one of only a handful of statues in London unveiled while the subject...
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 ...
We've put the two leagues together: League of the Royal Free Hospital Nurses & Hampstead General Hospital Nurses League, since, when the NHS merged the two hospital together, presumably the Nur...
From the National Archives : "St John House was founded in 1848 as a 'Training Institution for Nurses for Hospitals, Families and the Poor'. It was a religious community run by a Master, who was a ...
Physician, pathologist, reformer and philanthropist., of Hodgkin's disease fame. Born Middlesex. Died Jaffa, Palestine (now Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel).
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1903-1930. Commander in the Order of St John.
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