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History of medicine
The Seamen's Hospital Society: a progenitor of the
tropical institutions
G C Cook
The
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London
NW1 2BE, UK
Accepted 5 July 1999
1999 marks the centenary of the two major British Schools of
Tropical Medicine, founded in London and Liverpool, respectively. The
origin(s) of the former clearly lies in the Seamen's Hospital Society,
which dates from 1821. It seems likely that the foundation of this
school (with Government support) also acted as a catalyst for the
school at Liverpool, which in fact opened its doors a few months before
that in London.
Keywords: Seamen's Hospital Society; Schools of Tropical Medicine; history of medicine
© 1999 by The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
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