Resultado de búsqueda
Hace 4 días · Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St. Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in Bromley, London. Its famous history has inspired several horror books, films, and TV series, most notably Bedlam, a 1946 film with Boris Karloff. The hospital is part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Hace 3 días · The Royal Hospital at Chelsea does not indeed possess the lofty dome of the Hôpital des Invalides at Paris, nor the twin domes of Greenwich Hospital, but it gains a rare quality of peaceful domestic architecture by the absence of these ambitious features.
Hace 4 días · Bethlem Hospital. The Mayor and Commonalty of the City of London took the priory and hospital under their protection in 1346, and in 1547, after the dissolution of religious houses, they purchased the hospital and its possessions from the King and by Royal Letters Patent re-established it as a hospital for lunatics.
Hace 3 días · The gate towards Smithfield, a mean structure (with the statue of Henry VIII. and the inscription, "St. Bartholomew's Hospital, founded by Rahere, A.D. 1102; re-founded by Henry VIII., 1546."), was built in 1702. On the pediment of the hospital are two figures—Lameness and Sickness.
Hace 1 día · National Health Service (NHS), in Great Britain, a comprehensive public-health service under government administration, established by the National Health Service Act of 1946 and subsequent legislation. Virtually the entire population is covered, and health services are free except for certain.
Hace 4 días · A 12th-century manuscript of the Hippocratic Oath in Greek, one of the most famous aspects of classical medicine that carried into later eras The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies. The history of medicine is the ...
Hace 1 día · London, city, capital of the United Kingdom. It is among the oldest of the world’s great cities—its history spanning nearly two millennia—and one of the most cosmopolitan. By far Britain’s largest metropolis, it is also the country’s economic, transportation, and cultural center.
