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4 unusual facts about National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery


Barbara Jane Harrison

Almost £1,500 was raised which was used to buy a computer for the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, for use by the muscular dystrophy laboratories for research into the disease.

Karl Chircop

A few days later he suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and was rushed to Mater Dei Hospital, from where he was later taken to London’s National Hospital for Neurology.

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

It was merged in 1948 with the Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases (originally called The London Infirmary for Epilepsy and Paralysis), which in turn owed its foundation in 1866 to a German, Julius Althaus.

Pietro Gori

In London, he became severely ill, and recovered at the National Hospital.


Charles Alfred Ballance

For much of his professional life he was associated with St. Thomas' Hospital and National Hospital, Queen Square in London.

Charles Skinner Hallpike

In 1940 he moved to join the Medical Research Council team at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London as Assistant Aural Surgeon and later Aural Physician, which post he held till his retirement in 1967.

Epilepsy Society

The Epilepsy Society has close partnerships with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) and the UCL Institute of Neurology, both located in Queen Square, London.

Irena Chalmers

After completing her graduate work at the Neurological Institute in Queen's Square, London, she moved to the United States in 1960 to teach Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital Neurological Institute.


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