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Exploring the legacy of medical innovation at #KingsCollegeLondon, that shaped #Healthcare & #MedicalEducation worldwide
Inside the #JamesClerkMaxwellBuilding #KingsCollegeLondon #WaterlooCampus, the #FlorenceNightingaleFaculty is the world’s 1st school of nursing that is constantly connected to a fully serving hospital & medical school, a practise started at #StThomasHospital in 1860. Today the #Faculty leads global #Nursing, #Midwifery & #PalliativeCare education & research #KCLMedic #KCLWoman
In Source: #JamesClerkMaxwell BLD
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South of the #RiverThames, the #FlorenceNightingaleMuseum at #StThomasHospital tells the story of the “Lady with the lamp” including her Victorian childhood & fight for #GlobalHealth reform. Located inside her 1860 #NursingSchool, the Museum focuses on her #NursingLegacy, which continues to inspire care, science & social change #KingsCollegeLondon #StainedGlassWindow #KCLMedic
In Source: Florence Nightingale
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#StThomasHospital is a #NHS teaching hospital in Central London with a rich medical legacy. #FlorenceNightingale opened her school here in 1860, launching the 1st professional nursing education. The #Pavilion design maximises light & air, advancing global #Healthcare. Now part of #KingsCollegeLondon it stands opposite #HousesOfParliament, bridging history & innovation #KCLMedic
In Source: Home of Modern Nursing
The #OldOperatingTheatre #Museum & #HerbGarret sits on the original site of #StThomasHospital, before relocating in 1862. Europe’s oldest surgical theatre for female patients, the timber attic once used to prep & store medicinal herbs was converted into an operating theatre in 1822 - pre. anaesthetics / antiseptics. #FlorenceNightingale started her #NursingSchool here #KCLMedic
In Source: Old Operating Theatre
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#ArthurGeorgeWalker’s statue of #FlorenceNightingale standing resolutely with her lamp, honours her wartime service & statistical #Healthcare reforms. Erected in 1915 as part of the #GuardsCrimeanWarMemorial ensemble, the #Bronze #Statue has become emblematic of #Nursing leadership & compassionate care - linking Victorian reform to modern global healthcare practice #KCLMedic
In Source: Florence Nightingale
The #JamesClerkMaxwellBuilding is so named, to honour the remarkable #JamesClerkMaxwell, a Scottish scientist whose 1860s lectures here, sparked revolutions in #Physics. His equations unified light, electricity & magnetism—the groundwork for electronics, wireless communication & optics to evolve. Today, the site fosters that same spirit of cross-disciplinary inquiry #KCLScience
In Source: #JamesClerkMaxwell BLD
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Dedicated exclusively to human #Pathology, the #GordonMuseum at #KingsCollegeLondon is the UK's largest medical #Museum. It supports over 9.5K medical, dental & biomedical students, with approx. 8K curated specimens, historical artefacts, wax models, paintings & pioneering surgical tools. Founded in 1905 at #GuysCampus, it inc.lecture & study rooms & virtual terminals #KCLMedic
In Source: Hodgkin Building
Funded by a donation of £45K from British Lawyer & #KingsCollegeLondon benefactor #RobertGordon, the #GordonMuseum opened in 1905. A purpose-built teaching space & #Museum dedicated to #HumanDisease, Gordon’s #Philanthropy & patronage advanced #MedicalEducation & #Pathology at the #GuysCampus, & enabled new & improved forms of anatomy displays to be produced #KCLMedic
In Source: Hodgkin Building
Building upon the early seminal work of #ThomasHodgkin, who started to curate a catalogue of 3K+ specimens & exhibits in 1829, when he was the 1st Medical Curator at #GuysCampus, the #GordonMuseum was setup to advance the study of #ComparativeAnatomy & #Pathology & has helped shape modern lasting systems in #MedicalEducation #KCLMedic
In Source: Hodgkin Building
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#KingsCollegeHospital is one of London’s leading #TeachingHospitals & trauma centres. Propelled by #RobertBentleyTodd’s vision, it opened in the disused #StClementDanes #Workhouse near #KingsCollegeLondon in 1840, where #JosephLister pioneered antiseptic surgery & clinical / nurse training #FlorenceNightingale. It relocated to its present site in 1909 #MedicalResearch #KCLMedic
In Source: #KingsCollegeHospital
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Aged 27, #RobertBentleyTodd became a #KingsCollegeLondon Professor in 1836. A visionary physician & educator, he played a key role in the 1840 opening of #KingsCollegeHospital; launching #MedicalScholarships & modern clinical teaching. Through his advocacy, the Sisters of #StJohn's started nursing at the hospital - his reforms shaped a lasting #MedicalEducation legacy #KCLMedic
In Source: Robert Bentley Todd
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#JosephLister, the #FatherOfModernSurgery & Prof. of Clinical Surgery at #KingsCollegeLondon proved infection could be prevented. In 1877, he performed a groundbreaking antiseptic kneecap operation that shaped modern medical surgery. Though controversial, its success showed that by sterilising wounds & instruments with acid, deaths could be reduced from 46% to 15% #KCLMedic
In Source: #KingsCollegeHospital
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Tracing the development of #MedicalScience & #Medicine, from surgery, anatomy & public health, the #FoyleLibrary holds rare medical books from #KingsCollegeLondon’s School of Medicine & Dentistry. Located in the #MaughanLibrary, these historic volumes that were once kept in different hospital libraries, preserve centuries of scientific healing knowledge #KCLArchives #KCLMedic
In Source: The Maughan Library
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