Guy's Hospital
Guy's Hospital is a hospital in the NHS in the London Borough of Southwark. The operator is Guy 's & St Thomas ' NHS Foundation Trust. In the hospital the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, King's College London are housed. The hospital consists of 19 interconnected buildings. The most important buildings are the Guy 's Tower, the New Guy 's House, and Thomas Guy House.
History
The hospital was founded in 1721 by Thomas Guy, a publisher who had become rich through the South Sea Bubble. It was originally intended for the designated incurable patients at St Thomas ' Hospital. Over the years, the hospital was expanded. The original building stood on a site at the St. Thomas Street. Even after bomb damage during the Second World War, the chapel from the 18th century and the bust of Thomas Guy remained intact. Through the estate of William Hunt in the amount of £ 200,000 was in 1829 an extension to hundreds beds are made. The south wing was named after Hunt. This tract was replaced by the new New Hunt 's House in 2000.
The 34 storey Guy 's Tower was added in 1974 and with 143 meters the tallest hospital building in the world. The tower was designed by Watkins Gray.
About 8,000 employees work in the two hospitals Guy's and St ' Thomas. You are at an age of almost 900 years, the oldest forming hospitals in the world.
In 2005, the children's department was moved to the newly built Evelina Children's Hospital.
Known Former
- Thomas Addison, discoverer of Addison's disease
- Thomas Hodgkin
- Richard Bright, father of Nephrology
- Astley Paston Cooper
- Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin
- Samuel S. Wilks
- Frederick Gowland Hopkins, founder of the Vitamin Research
- To be William Gull, professor and suspects Jack the Ripper
- James Hinton
- John Hilton
- Humphry Osmond