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Guy's Hospital

Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital founded by philanthropist Thomas Guy in 1721, located in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre. It is the large teaching hospital of GKT School of Medical Education.

History
The hospital dates from 1721, when it was founded by philanthropist Thomas Guy, who had made a fortune as a printer of Bibles and greatly increased it by speculating in the South Sea Bubble. It was originally established as a hospital to treat "incurables" discharged from St Thomas' Hospital. Guy had been a governor and benefactor of St Thomas' and his fellow governors supported his intention by granting the south-side of St Thomas Street for a peppercorn rent for 999 years. Following his death in 1724, Thomas Guy was entombed at the hospital's chapel (also dating from the 18th century), in a tomb featuring a marble sculpture by John Bacon. A bequest of £180,000 by William Hunt in 1829, one of the largest charitable bequests in England in historic terms, allowed for a further hundred beds to be accommodated. In 1879-1880 the 'Guy's Hospital dispute' between matron Margaret Burt and hospital medical staff highlighted how doctors sometimes felt that their authority was being challenged by new-style matrons. Florence Nightingale advocated that these new trained matrons had full control and discipline over their nursing staff. Margaret Burt ultimately resigned, but this was not an isolated episode and other matrons experienced similar issues, such as Eva Luckes. In 1974, the hospital added the 34-storey Guy's Tower and 29-storey Guy's House: this complex was designed by Watkins Gray. The Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, which is dedicated to improving outcomes of conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury, was opened by the Princess Royal in December 2004. In October 2005 children's departments moved to the Evelina London Children's Hospital in the grounds next to St Thomas's close to the Palace of Westminster. A new cancer centre, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and built by Laing O'Rourke at a cost of £160 million, was completed in April 2016. In 2023, a twin operating theatre was installed by ModuleCo in partnership with Whites Traffic Management. File:Passage inside Guy's Hospital.jpg|Interior passageway inside Guy's Hospital File:Mr Guys Hospital for Incurables.jpg|Early 18th century engraving File:Guy's Hospital00.jpg|1820 Engraving of entrance by James Elmes and William Woolnoth File:Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals from 1833 Schmollinger map.jpg|The location of Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals, c. 1833 File:Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941 D2330.jpg|Surgery is performed at Guy's in 1941 File:Northern Side of the War Memorial, Guy's Hospital.jpg|War memorial at Guy's Hospital ==Facilities==
Facilities
Medical services at the Guy's site are now concentrated in the buildings to the east of Great Maze Pond: these buildings, which are connected, are known as Tower Wing, Bermondsey Wing, Southwark Wing and Borough Wing. The Cancer Centre is in a separate building just to the south. Guy's Tower (now called the Tower Wing) regained its tallest hospital building in the world status in 2014, due to the installation of a light sculpture on the roof. It has since been surpassed by the Outpatient Center at the Houston Methodist Hospital, in Houston, USA at . ==Notable people==
Notable people
Harold Ackroyd, First World War recipient of the Victoria CrossThomas Addison, discoverer of Addison's diseaseStephanie Amiel, diabetologist • John Belchier, surgeon • William Babington, founder member of the Geological SocietyBenjamin Guy Babington invented the laryngoscope • Richard Bright, discoverer of Bright's diseaseRussell Brock, Baron Brock, pioneer of modern open-heart surgery • Frank Cook, Surgeon • John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield Professor of Experimental Medicine • Trevor Clay nurse and General Secretary of the Royal College of NursingSydney Cohen, Professor of Chemical Pathology • Sir Astley Cooper, discoverer of the Cooper's ligaments of the breasts • Edward Cock, surgeon and nephew of Sir Astley Cooper • Dame Rachel Crowdy, Principal Commandant of Voluntary Aid Detachments in France and Belgium from 1914 to 1919 • Prokar Dasgupta, Urologist and robotic surgeon • C. S. Forester, English novelist, studied medicine at Guy's but did not graduate • John Frederick France, ophthalmic surgeon • Graham Fraser, consultant and pioneer of cochlear implants in the United Kingdom. • Sir Alfred Downing Fripp, surgeon who was knighted for his part in the reform of the R.A.M.C. • Sir William Kelsey Fry, pioneering dental surgeon • Abraham Pineo Gesner, surgeon and inventor of kerosene refining • Sir William Withey Gull, the first to describe myxoedema and coined the term anorexia nervosaEdward Headlam Greenhow, physician, sanitarian and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals lecturer • Thomas Michael Greenhow, surgeon and sanitarian • Georgiana Hill, cookery book writer, worked as a ward sister • Henry Bendelack Hewetson, ophtalmic and Aural surgeonJohn Braxton Hicks, obstetrician, discoverer of the Braxton Hicks uterine contractions • Mary Ann Hilliard, outpatient sister and later notable suffragetteJohn Hilton, anatomist and surgeon • James Hinton, otologistThomas Hodgkin, discoverer of Hodgkin's lymphoma • Sir Frederick Hopkins, discoverer of vitamins • James Jurin, early work on epidemiology of the smallpox vaccineJohn Keats, poet • Thomas Wilkinson King, anatomical pathologist • Emily MacManus, Matron • Alan Menter, International Psoriasis Council, Founder • Frederick Akbar Mahomed, physician who helped define essential hypertension as a distinct disease • J. F. O. Mustaffah, first Ghanaian Neurosurgeon • Humphry Osmond, psychiatrist who worked with psychedelic drugs and coined the term • Frederick William Pavy, worked with Richard Bright, one of the founders and presidents of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London • Sir Edwin Cooper Perry Superintendent; Dean of the Medical School; 1st Warden of the Residential College • Sir Alfred Poland, the first to describe Poland syndromePhilip Henry Pye-Smith, physician • Patricia Batty Shaw, social worker • Devi Prasad Shetty, cardiac surgeon and founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya • Keith Simpson, Home Office Pathologist • Jean Smellie, paediatrician • Dame Sarah Swift, matron, founder of the College of Nursing, later the Royal College of NursingAnthony Trafford, Baron Trafford, Conservative MP, was student and later senior registrar • Gerard Folliott Vaughan, psychiatrist, who became a politician and minister of state during Margaret Thatcher's government • Iain West, forensic pathologist • William James West, discoverer of epileptic spasms; West syndrome was named in his honour • Sir Samuel WilksLudwig Wittgenstein, worked anonymously as a hospital porter during World War II ==Arms==
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