St Mary's Hospital

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Education	Isabella Bird	About a year after her husband 's death, IB enrolled in a three-month nursing course at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London. Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications. 138 Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press. 96
Occupation	Nancy Mitford	NM did a range of volunteer work during the Second World War. She volunteered briefly at St Mary's Hospital , Paddington, ran a canteen for French soldiers, and assisted with Jewish evacuees from the...
Textual Production	Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda	Their letter, which was published on 30 March, was a response to previous correspondence from Sir James Purves-Stewart , Senior Physician at Westminster Hospital . He had written that new women medical students should not...

Timeline

1831

A severe epidemic of puerperal fever struck in Manchester.

1874

St Mary's Hospital , London, chemically produced the drug heroin from morphine; it was later patented in the 1890s by the pharmaceutical company Bayer .

September 1928

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin while working at St Mary's Hospital in London.

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