Guy's Hospital
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Image:Guy's hospital crest.jpg Guy's Hospital is a large NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in south London. It is administratively a part of Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. It is a large teaching hospital and is home to the King's College London Schools of Medicine and Dentistry at Guy's, King's College and St Thomas's Hospitals (formerly known as the GKT School of Medicine).
It was founded in 1721 by Sir Thomas Guy (1644/45-December 27th 1724), a publisher who had made a fortune in the South Sea Bubble. It was originally established as a hospital to treat "incurables" discharged from St Thomas' Hospital.
Guy's has expanded over the centuries. In 1974 it added the 34 storey Guy's Tower. At 143 metres (469 feet) high, this is the 11th tallest building in London and the tallest hospital building in the world. Other buildings on the Guy's campus include the original 18th century chapel.
On 31 October 2005 children's departments at Guy's moved to the newly constructed Evelina Children's Hospital.
The Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases was built following a generous donation from the Wolfson Foundation. This centre brings under one roof a number of research groups dedicated to improving outcomes of conditions including Alzheimer's disease, stroke, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury.
Famous physicians who worked at Guy's
- Thomas Addison, discoverer of Addison's disease
- Thomas Hodgkin, discoverer of Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Richard Bright, discoverer of Bright's disease
- Sir Astley Cooper, discoverer of the Cooper's ligaments of the breasts
- Edward Cock, surgeon and nephew of Sir Astley Cooper
- Sir Samuel Wilks
- Sir Frederick Hopkins, discoverer of vitamins
- Sir William Withey Gull, the first to describe myxoedema
- James Hinton, otologist
- John Hilton, great anatomist and surgeon
- Humphry Osmond, psychiatrist who worked with psychedelic drugs and coined the term
- John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield
- Frederick William Pavy, worked with Richard Bright, one of the founders and presidents of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
- John Braxton Hicks, obstetrician, discoverer of the Braxton Hicks uterine contractions
- Gerard Folliott Vaughan, UK psychiatrist, who became a politician and minister of state during Margaret Thatcher's government