St. Bartholomew’s Hospital

Frankland left Owens College in 1857 to teach at St. Bartholomew s Hospital in London, and in 1865, he succeeded Hofmann at the Royal School of Mines, when Hofmann left London to return to Germany. Frankland s successor at Owens was Henry Roscoe, who had just returned from studying with Bunsen at Heidelberg and who was the son of a distinguished Lancashire family (and the uncle of Beatrix Potter). 

MRCPath, after graduating in medicine, trained in general medicine and also in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics to achieve specialist registrations. He held medical appointments at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, Hospital for Nervous Diseases Queen s Square, London and St Bartholomew s Hospital, London. 

Research Fellow, Department of Psychological Medicine, St. Bartholomew s Hospital, London, England... 

T. Chard (18), Department of Reproductive Physiology, Joint Unit of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Reproductive Physiology, St. Bartholomew s Hospital Medical College and The London Hospital Medical College, London EC I, England... 

Stephens AD. Cystinuria and its treatment 25 years experience at St. Bartholomew s Hospital. J Inherit Metab Dis 1989 12(2) 197-209. 

Browne, E.G. A chapter from the history of Cannabis indica. St. Bartholomew s Hospital Journal, 1897, 4, 81-86. 

ANDREW J. FLETCHER, MB, BChir, (Cantab), MS (Columbia), DipPharmMedRCP, FFPM was formerly the Senior Assistant Editor of The Merck Manual, and is Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Care at Temple University School of Pharmacy. He graduated from Cambridge University and St. Bartholomew s Hospital, London, briefly trained in Neurosurgery, joined CIBA-Geigy in the UK as Medical Advisor, then European Medical Director for Syntex, and joined Merck, first in the international division after graduating in business studies from Columbia University, New York City, then as Assistant Editor of The Merck Manual. He teaches pharmaceutical medicine, bioethics and medical and scientific writing at Temple University s School of Pharmacy. He is a founder member and former trustee of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Investigators (formerly the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians). Dr. Fletcher resides in Ohio. 

Parenthetically, many pharmaceuticals—in fact, most of them—contain "insoluble" additives. If you are a chronic user of any medication, prescription or over-the-counter, you are a candidate for Crohn s disease. The doctors at the University of London who did the polystyrene experiments concluded "Perhaps we should be more concerned about the fate of insoluble materials in toothpaste and pharmaceuticals which might be taken chronically." Another British group at St. Bartholomew s Hospital has added corroborating evidence by discovering aluminum, silicon, and titanium in the lesions of Crohn s disease. 

The laboratory at Queen s College was run at first by George Bernard Cronshaw and Allan Frederick Walden, neither of whom contributed much to research in organic chemistry. That flourished at Queen s only after Chattaway returned there from St Bartholomew s Hospital and joined Walden in 1907. In the same year Jesus College set up its own laboratory, a fine three-storied... 

Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of St. Bartholomew s Hospital, Charterhouse Square, London E. C. 1, Et lattd... 

Harvey, William (1578-1657) English physician, who worked at St Bartholomew s Hospital, London, from 1609 and from 1618 was court physician. He is best known for discovering the circulation of the blood, which he announced in 1628. 

The era of the hospital began in the twelfth century when the sick were to be housed in separate buildings designed for medical care. Examples include St. Bartholomew s Hospital (London, AJ>. 1123) and St. Thomas Hospital (London, A.D. 1200). Both hospitals are in service today, having been refounded in the mid-1500s due to the dissolution of the monasteries in England in AI>. 1536. 

Dr. Edwards, later a lecturer at St. Bartholomew s Hospital, had drawn the attention of Davy when a boy to the corrosion of the iron flood-gates in the port of Hayle owing to contact with copper. In November 1813 Davy wrote to Alvair in Paris, who was casting bronze statues, saying that a contact between metals has no effect of corrosion, unless a Voltaic circle is formed with moisture, and then the more oxidable metal corrodes and iron corrodes rapidly both with lead and bronze. Davy made many experiments on the corrosion of the copper sheathing of ships by sea water, and both from theoretical electrochemical principles and practical experiments he concluded that this could be prevented by attaching pieces of zinc or iron to the copper, these metals becoming anodes whilst the copper became a cathode and was... 

Augustus Matthiessen (London 2 January 1831-6 October 1870), studied in Giessen and Heidelberg and was professor in St. Mary s Hospital (1862) and St. Bartholomew s Hospital (1869), F.R.S. He also did research in organic chemistry and on the electrical conductivity of metals. ... 

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