Tag: St Bartholomew’s Hospital
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Neville Samuel Finzi—British radiotherapy pioneer
Arpan K. BanerjeeSolihull, UK Neville Samuel Finzi was born on June 25, 1881.1 He was the son of Gerald Finzi’s uncle, Leon, who was also a doctor. Gerald Finzi was a British composer famous for his song cycles, choral music, and reflective instrumental and orchestral works including a violin and cello concerto. Neville attended University…
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Robert Liston—the fastest knife in town
Samuel Johnson, a man of strongly held prejudices, had a low opinion of most foreigners, and this included the Scots. James Boswell, his biographer and a Scotsman himself, records how Johnson patronizingly would declare that the best roads lead from Scotland and that much could be made of a Scotsman “if he be caught young.”…
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St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London
Rebecca GreenMas AhmedUnited Kingdom There is something about St Bartholomew’s Hospital, something – it may be in its age, its history or its associations – which creates towards it and, in its strength, a unique feeling among its members. The words of the matron at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Isla Stewart, in the late ninteenth-century capture…