Moorfields Eye Hospital

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The current headquarters on City Road, Islington

The Moorfields Eye Hospital is a company specializing in eye diseases clinic in London. It is a successor to the London Dispensary for Curing Diseases of the Eye and Ear , founded in 1805 and the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. In addition to the treatment of eye diseases, the clinic researches these in collaboration with University College London and trains young people from around the world.

history

Headquarters of the eye clinic from until 1899, next to it St Mary Moorfields Church , Finsbury Circus

John Cunningham Saunders , an English ophthalmologist, suggested in October 1804 a private clinic for eye and throat medicine to open. This proposal met with widespread support from both the medical community and the general public. The London Dispensary for curing Diseases of the Eye and Ear opened on March 25 of the following year at Charterhouse Square . Saunders and John Richard Farre were the treating doctors. Everyone was entitled to treatment, and ophthalmologists were trained. In 1805 600 patients were treated, in 1810 almost three thousand and the numbers continued to rise: in 1850 the clinic treated 9,437 patients. In 1808 otology had ceased to exist and the clinic was renamed the London Infirmary for curing Diseases of the Eye . Various eye clinics have sprung up around the world based on the London model. In 1823 the clinic moved to a building next to the old structure of St Mary Moorfields Church on Blomfield Street, northeast of Finsbury Circus . On the front of the three-story building was the name London Ophthalmic Infirmary .

After Queen Victoria became the clinic's patroness in 1837, the name was again changed to Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital .

In 1899 the building was demolished and the clinic moved to a building on City Road. During the Second World War, the building was so badly damaged that a new building was considered, but ultimately not realized and instead the old building was repaired. In 1946 it merged with the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, founded in 1816 by George James Guthrie (1785-1856), and the Central Eye Hospital . With the establishment of the National Health Service , the clinic was no longer a donation-financed institution and was administered by the Teaching Hospitals Regional Board .

literature

  • Edward Treacher-Collins, The History and Traditions of the Moorfields Eye Hospital , London 1929. (until 1905)
  • Frank Law, The History and Traditions of the Moorfields Eye Hospital. Being a Continuation of Treacher Collins' History of the First Hundred Years London 1975 (1905 to 1975)
  • Peter K. Leaver, The History of Moorfields Eye Hospital , Vol. 3: Forty Years on , London 2004. (1963-2003) ISBN 978-1-85315-580-2

Web links

Commons : Moorfields Eye Hospital  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Cormack, Semple: The Hospitals of London, No. VI , in: London Journal of Medicine, Vol. 3, pp. 575-583, pp. 579-581.
  2. ↑ Joseph Whitaker: An almanack for the year of our Lord 1894, London 1893, Volume 26, p. 112 [1]
  3. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Guthrie, George James. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 518 f.
  4. ^ Entry by the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, in: AIM25. Archives in London and M25 area.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '39 "  N , 0 ° 5' 22"  W.