4 George Street, London, subsequently 171 Gower Street, the home of the University Dispensary 1828-1834. Photograph, 1960.

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4 George Street, London, subsequently 171 Gower Street, the home of the University Dispensary 1828-1834. Photograph, 1960. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The building was built around 1800. The University Dispensary occupied it from 1828 to 1834. It was the fore-runner of University College Hospital, which was founded in 1834. The buildings shown here still existed in March 1971, on the west side of Gower Street to the north of the Cruciform Building (Merrington, loc. cit.): they seem to have been demolished in the 1970s

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[London] : [Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library], [1960]

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 30.2 x 24.2 cm

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171 Gower Street, formerly 4 George Street, Euston Square. Home of the University Dispensary 1828-34, the forerunner of University College Hospital

References note

W.J. Bishop, U.C.H. magazine, 1961, vol. 45: 7 (cited by Whittet)
T.D. Whittet, 'London's University Dispensary', Chemist and druggist, 1 September 1962, pp. 217-219
W.R. Merrington, University College Hospital and its medical school, London 1976, pp. 14-18

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Wellcome Collection 665736i

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