St Mary's Hospital

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Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
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
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...
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...

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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