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The London Museums of Health & Medicine - medicine. It was founded in 1991. The Museums are: Alexander Fleming Laboratory Bethlem Royal Hospital British Dental Association British Optical Association British Red Cross Chelsea Physic Garden Florence Nightingale Museum Freud Museum Great Ormond Street Hospital Museum of the Order of St John Royal College of Physicians Royal College of Surgeons Royal Pharmaceutical Society Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret Royal London Hospital Science Museum St Bartholomew's Hospital Veterinary Museum Wellcome Trust Worshipful Society of Apothecaries Association of Anaesthetists.
St Thomas' Hospital - monastery was dissolved in the Reformation, but reopened in 1551 and rededicated to Thomas the Apostle. It was reopened by Edward VI and has remained open ever since. At the end of the 17th century the hospital and church were largely rebuilt by Sir Robert Clayton, president of the hospital and a former Lord Mayor of London. He employed Thomas Cartwright as architect. It is one of London's most famous hospitals - associated with names such as Astley Cooper and William Cheselden and Florence Nightingale. There are only a few surviving pieces of the old Hospital in St Thomas St, Southwark - the most exciting of which is the Old Operating Theatre now a Museum. External Link http://www.thegarret.org.uk/stthomas.htm.
Old Operating Theatre - Operating Theatre The Old Operating Theatre Museum is London’s most intriguing historic interior - it is found in the Garret of St Thomas's Church, Southwark, on the original site of St Thomas' Hospital. It consists of: the oldest surviving operating theatre in the country (dating from 1822), used in the days before anaesthetics and antiseptic surgery. the herb garret used by the hospital’s apothecary to store and cure herbs used in healing. a collection of artefacts revealing the horrors of medicine before the age of science. Includes instruments for cupping, bleeding, trepanning, and childbirth. displays on medieval monastic health care, the history of St Thomas’s, Guy’s Hospital and the Evelina Children's Hospitals, Florence Nightingale and nursing, medical and herbal medicine. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Rebuilding of the Hospital and.
Florence Nightingale - Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910) was the pioneer of modern nursing. Florence Nightingale was born May 12 1820 into an upper-middle class family in Britain. She, like her older sister Parthenope, was named after an Italian city. She rebelled against the expected role for a woman of her status, which was to become an obedient wife. Instead she chose nursing, a career with a poor reputation and filled mostly by poorer women. She later told that she had received divine calling for her work in 1837 at Embley. Her 1845 announcement of her intentions aroused much ire. In 1851 she rejected the marriage proposal of philanthropist Richard Monkton Milnes, again against her mother's wishes. Nightingale persisted against the wishes of.
Dorothea Dix - to treat the insane according to the precepts of moral treatment. In Rhode Island, in 1843, for example, she was invited by the humanitarian Thomas G. Hazard to investigate the case of a madman named Abram Simmons who was confined in the Little Compton poorhouse. Simmons, his body twisted, and covered with sores, had been confined in a cage for thirty years. In April 1844, she wrote an account of Simmons in the [[Providence Journal]]. In May 1844 she prevailed on several members of the Rhode Island State Assembly to take Simmons case directly to the floor of the legislature. The assembly was shocked into silence, when, following this presentation, the representative from Little Compton announced that Simmons had died. This led to the appointment of a state commission to investigate.
King's College, London - Westfield College, since merged with Queen Mary. The current institution is the product of the merger of King's with a number of other institutions over the years, including Queen Elizabeth College, Chelsea College, the Institute of Psychiatry, Guy's Hospital, and St Thomas' Hospital. King's has over 17,000 students. Well-known alumni include Anita Brookner, Arthur C. Clarke, Derek Jarman, B. S. Johnson, Hanif Kureishi, Michael Nyman, and Desmond Tutu. Florence Nightingale's original training school for nurses was at St Thomas's Hospital and King's College Hospital. Perhaps the most famous scholarly research performed at King's was the work by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins that was essential to the discovery by James Watson and Francis Crick of the structure of DNA. External Links http://www.kcl.ac.uk/.
January 2 - becomes the first female staffer for the White House. 1900 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. 1900 - Chicago Canal opens. 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian fleet surrenders at Port Arthur, China 1917 - The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank. 1921 - The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 1921 - DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park San Francisco opens. 1923 - U.S Interior Secretary Albert Fall resigns due to the Teapot Dome scandal 1929 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls. 1935 - Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. 1942 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces..
James Barry (woman) - and improving the conditions of the troops and was later promoted to Principal Medical Officer. 1845 she contracted yellow fever and left for England for sick leave in October. Barry was posted to Malta on 2 November 1846. Within a month of her arrival she took a seat in the local church that was reserved for the clergy and was severely reprimanded. During her stay she had to deal with a threat of a cholera epidemic that eventually arrived 1850. She left Malta for Corfu 1851 with the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals. She left Corfu in 1857 for Canada as a Inspector-General of Hospitals. Barry was not always pleasant fellow to be around with. She could be tactless, impatient, argumentative and opinionated. She reputedly fought couple of duels when.
Joseph Lister - the usual explanation for wound infection was that the exposed tissues were damaged by chemicals in the air or via a stinking "miasma" in the air. The sick wards actually smelled bad, not due to a "miasma" but due to the rotting of wounds. Hospital wards were occasionally aired out at midday but Florence Nightingale's doctrine of fresh air was still science fiction then. Facilities for washing hands or the patient's wounds did not exist and it was even considered unnecessary for the surgeon to wash his hands before he saw a patient. This was strange because the work of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis and Oliver Wendell Holmes were not heeded even though the parellel should have been obvious. Lister became aware of a paper published by Louis Pasteur which showed that.
Johns Hopkins University - education has always been of key importance. All students at Johns Hopkins are encouraged to pursue original research at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and nearly 80% of Johns Hopkins undergrads produce research by the time of graduation. The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, located on campus, is one of the largest on the East Coast, housing nearly 4 million volumes. In addition to graduate education at the schools of Arts & Sciences and Engineering, Johns Hopkins also has several prestigious graduate professional schools. The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is highly revered, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health is renowned for contributions worldwide to preventive medicine and the health of large populations. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (simply referred to as SAIS), located in Washington D.C,.
John Singer Sargent - American artist, although he spent most of his life in Europe. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy to USA parents. He studied in Italy and Germany, and then in Paris under Carolus Duran. His portraits are remarkable for subtly capturing the individuality and personality of the sitters; his most ardent admirers think he is equaled in this only by Velázquez. Sargent's Portrait of Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), done in 1884, is now considered one of his finest works, but it aroused so much negative reaction in Paris at the time that it prompted Sargent to move to London. Frederick Law Olmsted oil painting, 1895 Although Sargent spent less than one year in the United States, some of his finest work is there, especially his decorations for the Boston Public Library..
Vilani - the right of the town in February 25, 1928, it had a territory of 163 ha and 65 trade enterprises. About a half of inhabitants of Vilani was killed in World War II bay the Nazis. The town was also destroyed. There are 58 enterprises, including 8 branch offices, now in Vilani. The woodworking enterprise, the charcoal producing producing enterprise and the printing-house “Katolu dzeive” are the largest of those. The local television was established in 1992. The Vilani hydroelectric power station, built in 1950 and renewed in 1994, is the first renewed private hydroelectric power station in Latvia. The Vilani Catholic church, the monastery building, both built in 18th century, and the manor house of the Vilani estate with the park are the most remarkable architectural monuments of the town..
Hamilton, Ontario - the moribund city centre. Recent efforts have been concentrating on emphasizing Hamilton's impressive natural landscape, and moving the waterfront away from the heavy industry represented by the two main steel corporations, Stelco and Dofasco. In 2001 the former Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth was amalgamated into a unified City of Hamilton. This amalgamation included the former City of Stoney Creek, Towns of Dundas, Flamborough and Ancaster along with the Township of Glanbrook. Prior to amalgamation the population of Hamilton was 331,100. Tourist attractions include Dundurn Castle, the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Museum of Steam and Technology, Whitehern and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. McMaster University and Mohawk College are located in Hamilton. Hamilton is the birthplace of Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first movie star. North: Puslinch, Milton, Burlington West: North Dumfries Hamilton.
Hans Memling - remains obscure, it is clear from the style of his manhood that he was taught in the painting-room of Van der Weyden. Nor is it beyond the limits of probability that it was Van der Weyden who received commissions at a distance from Brussels, and first took his pupil to Bruges, where he afterwards dwelt. The clearest evidence of the connexion of the two masters is that afforded by pictures, particularly an altarpiece, which has alternately been assigned to each of them, and which may possibly be due to, their joint labours. In this altarpiece, which is a triptych ordered for a patron of the house of Sforza, we find the style of Van der Weyden in the central panel of the Crucifixion, and that of Memling in the episodes on.
Hans Purrmann - and set up a painting school with the great French painter. After 1916 Purrmann lived in Berlin and Langenargen (Lake Constance), moving from there in 1935 to run the German art foundation at the Villa Romana in Florence. He lived there until 1943, then in Montagnola (Switzerland). He died in Basel. Typical of Purrmann's style are colourful, sensitively painted landscapes, still lifes and portraits. There are large collections of his works in Langenargen Museum and in the Purrmann House, Speyer..
Hans Makart - whose guidance, between 1861 and 1865 he developed his painting style. During these years, Makart also travelled to London, Paris and Rome to further his studies. The first picture he painted under Piloty, Lavoisier in Prison, though it was considered timid and conventional, attracted attention by its sense of color. In his next work, The Knight and the Water Nymphs, he first displayed the decorative qualities to which he afterwards sacrificed everything else in his work. His fame became established in the next year, with two works, Modern Amoretti and The Plague in Florence. His painting Romeo and Juliet was soon after bought by the Austrian emperor for the Vienna Museum, and Makart was invited to come to Vienna by the aristocracy. The prince Von Hohenlohe provided Makart with an old.
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston - conduct of the Crimean war and Palmerston was the public choice for Prime Minister, even though he had been as much a part of the conduct of the war as any of the other ministers of the government. He continued to serve as Prime Minister till his death in a term broken only by the Chinese crisis of 1857 and a failure to read the public mood in 1858. Palmerston was an Irish Peer who always sat in the British House of Commons. He is regarded as a nationalist and as a social conservative. He was a womaniser; The Times named him Lord Cupid, and he was cited, at the age of 79, as correspondent in an 1863 divorce case. He was also a persistent abolitionist. Palmerston is remembered for his.
History of discovery and distribution of the remains of Aegean civilization - onwards, called attention to certain early intaglios, since known as Inselsteine; but it was not till 1878 that C. T. Newton demonstrated these to be no strayed Phoenician products. In 1866 primitive structures were discovered in the island of Therasia by quarrymen extracting pozzolana for the Suez Canal works; and when this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin (Thera), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found and dated by the geologist Fouque, somewhat arbitrarily, to 2000 B.C., by consideration of the superincumbent eruptive stratum. Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to M. A. Biliotti many fine painted vases of.
Horace Donisthorpe - book was reviewed and republished in 1927, and was the first major book ever written on British ants. Although the first edition contained all the species known at the time (and one, Leptothorax corticalis which was lated found to be erroneous), the second edition contained the addition of Lasius brunneus, a small, arboreal ants of the Lasius mixtusb group found principally in orchards in the home counties. The 1927 edition was, however, too early for any mention of strongylodus testacious, which Donisthorpe discovered in the New Forest several years later. The Guests of British Ants. Published in 1927, the same year as the revision of British Ants: their life histories and classification took place. This book deals with myrmecophiles of British ants, some of them ants themselves (e.g. Formicoxenus and Anergates..
