Royal and Ancient:

Barts and The London is made up of three leading teaching hospitals:

Become part of our medical and nursing heritage.

Help make history where history was made.

You can trace the history of modern medicine through the doctors and nurses who have worked at our hospitals:

William Harvey, who joined Barts in 1609, discovered blood circulation.
James Parkinson, who joined The Royal London as a pupil in 1776, identified 'paralysis agitans' in 1817, later known as Parkinson's disease.
John Langdon-Down, who trained at the Royal London and became assistant physician in 1859, gave his name to Down's Syndrome.
Sir James Paget, one of the greatest Victorian surgeons, studied at Barts and became full surgeon there in 1861.
Thomas John Barnardo joined the Royal London as a medical student in 1866.
Ethel Gordon Manson, Britain's first state registered nurse, became Matron to the Barts School of Nursing in 1881.
In 1882 Robert Koch discovered the tubercle bacillus at the London Chest Hospital.
Florence Nightingale was an honorary governor of the The Royal London in the late nineteenth century.
Sir Frederick Treves, doctor of the 'Elephant Man', Joseph Merrick, qualified as a surgeon at the Royal London, and Joeseph Merrick lived at The Royal London Hospital.
Wartime nursing hero Edith Cavell trained and worked as a nurse at the Royal London between 1895 and 1901. In 1915 she was shot for helping British and Belgian soldiers to escape from German occupied territories.