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In 1936 the Radcliffe Infirmary treated four members of the British Union of Fascists following the Battle of Carfax. [5] A number of pioneering moments in medical history occurred at the hospital. Penicillin was first tested on patients on 27 January 1941 [6] and the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology was founded on the site in 1942. [3]
John Radcliffe Hospital (informally known as the JR or the John Radcliffe) is a large tertiary teaching hospital in Oxford, England.It forms part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is named after John Radcliffe, an 18th-century physician and Oxford University graduate, who endowed the Radcliffe Infirmary, the main hospital for Oxford from 1770 until 2007.
John Radcliffe (1650 – 1 November 1714 [3]) was an English physician, academic and politician. A number of landmark buildings in Oxford , including the Radcliffe Camera (in Radcliffe Square ), the Radcliffe Infirmary , the Radcliffe Science Library , [ 4 ] Radcliffe Primary Care and the Radcliffe Observatory were named after him.
The Radcliffe Observatory Quarter (ROQ) is a major University of Oxford development project in Oxford, England, in the estate of the old Radcliffe Infirmary hospital. [1] The site, covering 10 acres (3.7 hectares) is in central north Oxford.
Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford Colonel James Augustus Rooth MRCS LRCP (13 January 1869 [ 1 ] – 25 October 1963) was a British colonel and physician who was a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps , a member of the Royal College of Surgeons , and house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary , Oxford.
In 1851 Greenhill resigned his Radcliffe Infirmary post and briefly attempted practice as an Oxford physician. However, he moved later that year to Hastings on grounds of health, though he may also have wanted to escape Oxford's febrile religious controversies. [7] For many years he was physician to the St. Leonards and East Sussex Infirmary. [8]
During the First World War Gibson served as a Major in the 3rd Southern General Hospital in Oxford, and upon demobilisation in 1919 was appointed a full physician at the Radcliffe Infirmary. At the University of Oxford he was successively appointed Demonstrator of Pathology, Lecturer on Morbid Anatomy, and Reader (latterly Nuffield Reader) in ...
George Bernard Cronshaw (1872–1928) was a Chaplain, Fellow and Bursar of The Queen's College Oxford University and later Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.He was well known for his charitable works outside of university life holding governorships of several schools and his association with British hospitals especially the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.