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Person    | Male  Born 30/11/1807  Died 14/4/1883

William Farr

Categories: Medicine, Science

William Farr

Epidemiologist, a founder of medical statistics. Born Kenley, Shropshire.

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William Farr

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Finsen light cure

Finsen light cure

The Faroese/Icelandic physician, Niels Ryberg Finsen, (1860 - 1904) won a Nobel Prize for inventing this while working in Denmark.  After a time it was found to be dangerous rather than healing.

Concept, Medicine, Denmark, Iceland / Faroe Islands

1 memorial
Lambeth NHS
1 memorial
Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital

Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital

From AIM: "Medical students at St Bartholomew's Hospital are first recorded in 1662. The School and the Hospital were formally separated in 1921, when the School was incorporated with a new title,...

Building, Education, Medicine

1 memorial
Old Operating Theatre

Old Operating Theatre

It was a conversion of part of the garret of St Thomas's Church in 1822. The odd location is explained by the fact that it abutted the female surgical ward of St Thomas's. The hospital began to mov...

Place, Medicine

1 memorial