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Royal Free disease was named after the historically significant outbreak in 1955 at the Royal Free Hospital used as an informal synonym for "benign myalgic encephalomyelitis". [7] Tapanui flu was a term commonly used in New Zealand, deriving from the name of a town, Tapanui, where numerous people had the syndrome. [74]
Ramsay worked in the Royal Free Hospital in 1955 when an unknown infection affecting 300 staff raged between July and November, which required the hospital to close down. [4] [5] The disease, initially dubbed the Royal Free Disease, was renamed benign myalgic encephalomyelits in a Lancet article the following year.
The Royal Free Hospital (also known as the Royal Free) is a major teaching hospital in the Hampstead area of the London Borough of Camden. The hospital is part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust , which also runs services at Barnet Hospital , Chase Farm Hospital , North Middlesex University Hospital and a number of other sites.
A set of conjoined twins made medical history in 1955, when they were separated and both survived. First successfully separated conjoined twins share life story 55 years later Skip to main content
Taylor was born May Doris Charity Clifford in 1914 in Woking and studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. She was appointed assistant medical officer at Holloway Prison in 1942, later becoming medical officer, before becoming governor in 1945. [2] In 1955 she was governor during the imprisonment and hanging of Ruth Ellis. [2]
Cronin wanted to join the Royal Navy, but his father decided he was to have a career in medicine, and sent him to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. He became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1939, and received a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery in 1940. He was the Resident Surgeon at Grimsby and District ...
The liver unit that she set up at the Royal Free Hospital became the centre for both research into liver disease and the education of trainees in the specialty. In 1966, she developed, with Deborah Doniach of the Middlesex Hospital, the standard test for Primary Biliary Cirrhosis [15] and later showed that it was an autoimmune disease.
Royal Free Hospital Mary Barton (1 March 1905 – 1990) was a British obstetrician who, in the 1930s, founded one of the first fertility clinics in England to offer donor insemination . [ 1 ] Throughout her career, Barton studied infertility and conception .