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Person    | Male  Born 1/4/1578  Died 3/6/1657

William Harvey

Categories: Medicine

William Harvey

Born at Folkestone, Kent. Discovered and proved the circulation of the blood.

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William Harvey

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Keats House at Guy's - bust 1 - William Harvey

The collar, the hair-line, the facial growths - we hope you agree that this i...

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Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians

Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians

It really is spelt "ophth...", amazing. This institute doesn't seem to exist any more and we can't discover which organisation it disappeared into.

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Dame Maud McCarthy

Dame Maud McCarthy

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Horatio Prater

Horatio Prater

Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has found someone who is probably our man, Andrew writes: I can find no evidence of an H. Prater in the Croydon area in the 1880's so I believe that the Historic Engla...

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2 memorials
Brown Dog

Brown Dog

Brown mongrel/terrier male dog of about 6kg used in a vivisection in December 1902 and again, twice, on 2 February 1903 at University College, immediately after which he was killed. For more inform...

Animal, Animals, Medicine

2 memorials
Nightingale Badge - Old

Nightingale Badge - Old

The badge was awarded to nurses who qualified from the Nightingale School at St Thomas's Hospital. Designed by Dame Alice Lloyd Still (who was matron at St Thomas's), the four arms of the cross sym...

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