Bartholomew Hospitalof St

Bartholomew, Hospital of St., in Smithfield, London, was founded by Rahere in the year 1123. The hospital had originally three chapels, one of which is now known as St. Bartholomew the Less. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was for thirty-four years physician to the hospital; Percival Pott, John Abernethy, Benjamin Brodie, and William Lawrence were also associated with its school. The number of beds, including the convalescent home at Swanley, is 748. In the year 1896 relief was afforded to 6,840 in-patients and to 148,587 out-patients. The medical school attached to the hospital numbers upwards of 400 students.