Hospital Gallery

St. Bartholomews Hospital, 18th Century

St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 18th century engraving of the buildings of St. Bartholomew's Hospital at Smithfield in the City of London. Also known as Bart's, the hospital was founded in 1123. The buildings seen here were built between 1730 and 1760 to designs by James Gibbs. Now part of the Barts and The London NHS Trust the hospital is also home to a major medical school and school of nursing and midwifery. Engraving from Chamberlain's A New and Complete History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminister printed at London in 1770

© Todd-White Art Photography

Morgan Academy, Dundee, Scotland

Morgan Academy, Dundee, Scotland. Designed in 1862 by the Edinburgh architects John Dick Peddie and Charles Kinnear, originally opening (in 1866) as the Morgan Hospital, a charitable institution providing accommodation and education for "sons of tradesmen and persons of the working class generally whose parents stand in the need of assistance". Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Halsted, Cushing and Young operating C014/1090

Halsted, Cushing and Young operating. Pioneering American surgeons William Halsted (1852-1922), Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) and Hugh Hampton Young (1897-1941) operating on a patient at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA, with physicians and students watching. Halsted was one of the four founding physicians of John Hopkins Hospital, which opened in 1889. He introduced aseptic technique and the Halstedian approach to surgery, which emphasised the careful handling of human tissue, control of bleeding and anatomically accurate dissection and suturing of tissue. Cushing was a skilful brain surgeon who pioneered several important techniques, including the control of blood pressure during surgery. Young specialised in genito-urinary surgery, performing the first surgery for the treatment of prostate cancer. Photographed circa 1903-1904

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