London

Important places related to the history of medicine and other health-related subjects in London, England. These places are also visible on this Google Map.

• Alexander Fleming's house

• Alexander Fleming's stained glass window

• Arthur Conan Doyle's consulting room

• Atkinson Morley Hospital

• Benjamin Golding's tomb

• Bernard Spilsbury's home

• Bethlem Royal Hospital with:
  • Bethlem Museum of the Mind

• Charles Darwin's home site

• Cromwell House

• Edith Cavell's monument

• Edward Jenner Statue in Kensington Gardens

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital with:
  • Surgical teaching doll

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson's home

• EMI Abbey Road Studios

• Ethel Gordon Fenwick's home

• 'First anaesthetic administration in England' memorial tablet

• Florence Nightingale monument

• Florence Nightingale's home site

• former London School of Medicine for Women

• Francis Galton's home

• Frederick Treves' home

• George Frederic Still's home

• Great Ormond Street Hospital with related items:
  • Charles West's memorial tablet
  • The Paul O’Gorman Childhood Leukaemia Research Centre
  • The Princess Royal Nurses Home

• Guy's Hospital with related items:
  • "A Day at Guy's Hospital" by G Earle Wicham
  • Arthur Edward Durham's bas-relief
  • Astley Paston Cooper's memorial tablet
  • Astley Paston Cooper's monument
  • Benjamin Guy Babington's bust
  • Charles Aston Key's bust
  • Charles Hilton Fagge's memorial tablet
  • Golding Bird's bust
  • John C. W. Lever's bust
  • John Fry's memorial plaque
  • John Keats memorial plaque
  • John Keats monument
  • John Zephania Holwell's memorial tablet
  • Richard Bright's bust
  • Richard Mead's monument
  • Shepherd's House School of Nursing
  • Temple Bell
  • Thomas Addison's bust
  • Thomas Guy's funeral monument
  • Thomas Guy's monument
  • Thomas Turner's bust
  • William Babington's bust
  • William Babington's monument

• Hans Sloane's bust in The British Museum

• Hans Sloane's home

• Harley Street with related items:
  • • • • Aldo Castellani's home
        • Charles Lyell's home
        • Grantly Dick-Read's consulting rooms

• Harold Gillies' home and blue plaque

• Healing window in St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington

• Henry Gray's home

• Henry Hallett Dale's home and blue plaque

• Hodgkin Huxley House (The Physiological Society headquarters)

• Isaac Newton's house

• James Clerk Maxwell's home

• John Hughlings Jackson's home

• John Hunter's bust by Nigel Boonham (1977)

• John Hunter's home

• John Keats and Henry Stephens' lodgings

• John Milsom Rees' home

• John Simon's home

• John Snow's first home in London

• John Snow's home

• John Snow's last home in London

• John Snow's tomb

• Jonathan Hutchinson's home

• Joseph Lister's home

• Joseph Lister's monument

• Joseph Lister's tomb in Hampstead Cemetery

• Joseph Robinson's home and workplace

• Joseph Rogers' home

• Keats House in Hampstead

• Kensal Green Cemetery with related items:
  • • John William Fisher's tomb

• King's College Hospital with related items:
  • Anne Cole's memorial tablet
  • Charles Nathaniel Read's memorial tablet
  • Elise Margaret Kemp's memorial tablet
  • George Frederic Still's memorial tablet
  • Robert Bentley Todd’s monument
  • St Clair Thomson's memorial tablet
  • St Luke's Chapel
  • William Aldren Turner's memorial tablet

• Lionel Lockyer's funeral monument in Southwark Cathedral

• Lionel Logue's consulting room

• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with related items:
  • • • • 'Animals transmitting diseases' decoration
        • London School of Tropical Medicine's foundation stone
        • Patrick Manson's memorial tablet
        • Ronald Ross' Nobel Prize medal
        • 'Smallpox eradication' memorial tablet
        • William John Ritchie Simpson's bas-relief

• Margery Blackie's home

• Marie Stopes' home in Hampstead

• Mary Wortley Montagu's home

• Melanie Klein's home

• Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital's original site

• Middlesex Hospital (disappeared)

• Miller General Hospital

• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

• old "Hôpital et Dispensaire Français"

• old London School of Tropical Medicine and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases

• old St George's Hospital

• Patrick Manson's home

• Richard Bright's funeral tablet

• Robert Rawlinson's tomb

• Robert Willan's home

• Ronald Ross and Josef Dallos' home

• Rosalind Franklin house

• Rosalind Franklin tomb

• Royal College of Physicians with:
  • Edward Jenner’s portrait
  • John Radcliffe's portrait
  • Thomas Linacre's bust
  • Thomas Linacre's portrait by William Miller (1810)
  • Thomas Sydenham's bust
  • William Harvey's bust

• Royal London Hospital with Edith Cavell's Blue Plaque

• Sigmund Freud's monument

• Sigmund Freud Museum and Home

• Sir Henry Wellcome's residence

• St Bartholomew's Hospital with related items:
  • • • • Bowater John Vernon's memorial tablet
        • James Paget's portrait
        • John Frederick Jennings' memorial tablet
        • "Luther Holden" (1880) by John Everett Millais
        • Mary Owen's memorial tablet
        • Robert Balthrope's funeral monument
        • Stained glass windows commemorating World War II hospital’s dead
        • William Hogarth Staircase

• St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum with related items:
  • • • • Abernethy Cup
        • Feeding tools for nursing
        • The Hospital Chest
        • The Wounded Soldier
        • William Harvey's bust

• St Mary's Hospital with related items:
  • • • • Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
        • Alexander Fleming's bas-relief
        • Alexander Fleming's bust by Kovacs
        • Alexander Fleming’s first microscope
        • Alexander Fleming’s Penicillin specimen
        • 'Penicillin discovery' Blue Plaque
        • Almroth Wright's field microscope
        • Almroth Wright's opsonisation bath

• St Paul's Cathedral medical and health-related monuments:
  • • Alexander Fleming tomb in the crypt
    • Astley Paston Cooper monument in the church
    • Florence Nightingale's memorial in the crypt
    • Gordon Hamilton-Fairley's memorial tablet in the crypt
    • Henry Wellcome memorial tablet in the crypt
    • Robert Hooke's memorial tablet in the crypt
    • William Babington statue in the church
    • William Howard Russell's bust in the crypt

• St. Thomas' Church with related items:
  • • • • St. Thomas' Hospital's old Herb Garret
          • • • • 19th century Cervical dilator
                • 19th century nipple shield
                • Burroughs Wellcome & Co's "Tabloid"
                • Cupping and scarification
                • Nurse's chatelaine
                • Operating table of the Evelina Hospital for Children
        • St.Thomas' Hospital's old Operating Theatre
          • • • • Bandage winders
                • Early XIX century operating table

• St Thomas' Hospital with related items:
  • • • • 1896 nurse's uniform
        • Alexis Soyer's army stove
        • 'Building Healthy Hospitals' showcase
        • "First intraocular lens for cataract" memorial tablet
        • First male-student in Nightingale Training School for Nurses
        • "Florence Nightingale" (1917) by Arthur George Walker
        • Florence Nightingale Museum
        • Florence Nightingale's bust by John Steell
        • Florence Nightingale's dress
        • Florence Nightingale statue
        • Frederick Le Gros Clark's bust
        • John Simon's bust
        • Mary Seacole's monument
        • Richard Mead's bust
        • Robert Clayton's monument
        • Sarah Elizabeth Wardroper's memorial
        • The Nightingale Badges
        • Theodora Turner's bust
        • Turkish lantern of Florence Nightingale
        • William Cheselden's bust

• Stewart Duke-Elder's home

• Sydney Copeman's house

• Tavistock Square with:
  • British Medical Association House
  • Louisa Aldrich-Blake's monument

• The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland with
  • • Henry Walter Featherstone's portrait and memorial tablet
    • The Anaesthesia Heritage Centre and Museum with
      • • • ECG apparatus used on King George VI (c.1951)
          • Morton's Ether Inhaler (1846) - facsimile

• The Broad Street Pump original site

• The Broad Street Pump replica

• 'The Doctor' by Luke Fildes

• The Evelina Hospital for Sick Children's memorial tablet

• The Golden Boy of Pye Corner

• The Institute of Optometry

• The Italian Hospital

• The Royal College of Surgeons of England with related items:
  • • • • John Hunter's statue by Henry Weekes (1864)
        • Hunterian Museum
        • Joseph Lister's bas-relief and memorial tablet
        • Nuffield College of Surgical Sciences

• The Royal Free Hospital (original site)

• The Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women

• The Wellcome Building with related items:
  • • • • 'Acts of Mercy' by Frederick Cayley Robinson
        • Anatomical model of a pregnant woman
        • "Anatomy lessons at St.Dunstan's" by Hodgson Lobley (1919)
        • Chinese diagnostic dolls
        • Henry Wellcome's life mask
        • Henry Wellcome's spectacles and card case
        • Japanese Acupuncture figure
        • Medicine Man
        • Obstetrical forceps (c. 1726)
        • Wellcome Library

• The Wellcome Museum of the History of Medicine in the Science Museum, with related items:
  • Glimpses of Medical History gallery with
    • An x-ray room in the 1930s
    • Dr Bruce's Electrotherapy Room in 1905
  • The Science and Art of Medicine gallery with
    • Appliances for Thalidomide victims
    • Coolidge X-ray Tube
    • Early ECG recorder
    • Late 19th century Crookes Tube
    • Prototype kidney dialyser
    • Tambour Sphygmograph
    • The Giustiniani Medicine Chest
  • 1958 Heart-Lung Machine
  • Alvis Motor Company iron lung

• Thomas Henry Huxley's home

• Thomas Hodgkin's House

• Thomas Spencer Wells' tomb

• Thomas Sydenham's funeral tablet

• Thomas Young's home

• Thomas Wakley's house

• Victor Horsley's House

• Westminster Hospital

• William Bowman's funeral tablet

• William Hunter's funeral tablet

• William Hunter's home and museum

• William Marsden's home

• William Rutherford's tomb

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Chislehurst

• Charles West's tomb

Farnborough

• Thomas Young's tomb

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Bibliography

- Richard Barnett, Mike Jay, Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures, Strange Attractor Press, London 2008
- Nick Black, Walking London's Medical History, The Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd, London 2006
- Emily Cole (ed.), Lived in London. Blue Plaques and the Stories Behind Them, Yale University Press - English Heritage, 2013, pp. 637
- Neil Snowise, “London’s statues of medical history: four memorable physicians”, Commentary (RCP), June 2019, pp. 24-26
- Neil Snowise, “Celebrating London’s medical history: three statues – and a pub!”, Commentary (RCP), December 2019, pp. 27-29

See also the websites:

- Lost Hospitals of London

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• Margery Blackie's home