Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: esophageal atresia

  • Bristol Children’s Hospital and esophageal atresia

    Richard SpicerBristol, United Kingdom Bristol Children’s Hospital The Children’s Hospital in Bristol began as the Free Institution for Diseases of Women and Children in 1857. In 1885 it moved to a purpose-built neo-Gothic building (Fig.1) and continued to treat women and children on the same site until 1940 when bomb damage caused by the Luftwaffe…