St Bartholomew's Hospital

The St Bartholomew's Hospital ( also known as Barts ) is a teaching hospital in London. It is located in the northwestern part of the City of London, near St Paul's Cathedral. The hospital, founded in 1123, is the oldest of London and Britain. St Barts has 388 beds and is led by the National Health Service. With the Queen Mary College, University of London is a close partnership.

History

Barts was founded in 1123 by Rahere, a courtier and favorite of King Henry I., . Rahere to have had, which prompted him to found a hospital during a pilgrimage to Rome a vision of the Apostle Bartholomew. The same year also saw the founding of the neighboring collegiate church St Bartholomew -the -Great. While the dissolution of the English monasteries had no effect on the actual hospital operating, but fell Barts by the loss of revenue in a difficult financial situation. In December 1546 King Henry VIII left found the new hospital and signed an agreement that transferred Barts in the City of London. In January 1547 issued Letters Patent confirmed this process and contributed new revenue streams. The official, but little common title of the hospital was " House of the Poore in West Smithfield in the suburbs of the City of London of Henry VIII 's Foundation ".

1567 Roderigo Lopes was hired permanently as the first doctor. Barts escaped the Great Fire of London in 1666, but plenty of real estate owned by the hospital were destroyed so that had to be temporarily closed for several departments for lack of funds. From the 1730s, James Gibbs built the hospital completely new, with four identical blocks around a central square. The first was in 1732 the north wing, followed by the south wing in 1740 ( in 1937 aborted ) and the West Wing in 1752. The closure was 1769 he designed and built after his death the east wing. As the only medieval building, the adjacent church tower remained. William Hogarth painted 1735-1737 two murals in the large staircase, views of the pool of Bethesda and Good Samaritan.

In 1843, the founding of St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, are formed in the doctors. This training facility is integrated into the Queen Mary College since 1995. In 1994, a School of Nursing and Midwifery (St Bartholomew's School of Nursing and Midwifery ), which is integrated into the City University since 1995. Since 1948, the hospital is part of the National Health Service. A plaque on the wall of the hospital building is reminiscent of the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace, who was executed in 1305 in the immediate vicinity.

In 1993, the controversial Tomlinson report came to the conclusion that in central London conquer an oversupply of hospitals. Although the closure of St Bartholomew's Hospital was averted by a broad-based public campaign, but in 1995 was forced to close the emergency room. 1998 confirmed the Government that Barts will remain as a specialized center for oncology and cardiology.

Hospital Museum

The Barts museum explains the history of the hospital and its work in the field of nursing. The museum's collection includes historic surgical instruments, to the time of the Middle Ages reaching back archives as well as several works of art, including paintings by William Hogarth. The museum is located under the portico of the north wing and is open Tuesdays to Fridays. It is part of the Museum Association London Museums of Health & Medicine.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

Barts and in particular one of its chemistry labs is the place, A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, the main characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet for the first time in the published in the 1887 novel.

In several episodes of the TV series Sherlock the morgue of the beard is the venue.