Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Foundling Hospital

  • The Foundling Hospital and Dr. Richard Mead

    JMS Pearce Hull, England   [Mead] physician who lived more in the broad sunshine of life than almost any man – Dr. Samuel Johnson (Boswell’s Johnson IV. 222)   Fig 1. The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London. Engraving by B. Cole, 1754, after P. Fourdrinier, 1742. Wellcome Collection. The Foundling Hospital in Lamb’s Conduit Field in…