RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE MEDICAL SCIENCES 79
National Hospital, Queen Square, London
Aid for Building and for Endowment of Research
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The National Hospital, Queen Square, for the
Relief and Cure of Diseases of the Nervous
System Including Paralysis and Epilepsy, London,
received a grant of $600,000, of which half
is to be used toward the cost of erecting and
equipping a new building and half for the endowment
of research. The hospital authorities
own the land for the building and will pay part
of the construction and equipment costs and the
increased operating costs.
The National Hospital, founded in 1859, has
a long history of achievement in the training of
neurologists and the promotion of research on
nervous and mental diseases. Its influence on
neurology in the English-speaking world has
been outstanding. During the past thirty years
it has attracted numerous graduate students
from other countries. In the ten-year period
1924-33, 174 physicians came for practical
clinical and laboratory work; seventy-seven of
these were from the United States, fifty-four
from the British Isles, twenty-two from Australia
and New
Zealand, and seventeen from
Canada. A considerably larger number of physicians>
chiefly British, attended the regular lecture
and demonstration courses given during this
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