Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine

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Name (Latin)
Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
Other forms of name
Lister Institute
Start period
1903
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 149549760
Wikidata: Q1149028
Library of congress: nr 98006264
HAI10: 000665738
Sources of Information
  • Vitamins, a survey of present knowledge, 1932:
  • RLIN, 2/19/98
  • British Museum general catalog of printed books
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Wikipedia description:

The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, informally known as the Lister Institute, was established as a research institute (the British Institute of Preventive Medicine) in 1891, with bacteriologist Marc Armand Ruffer as its first director, using a grant of £250,000 from Edward Cecil Guinness of the Guinness family. It had premises in Chelsea in London, Sudbury in Suffolk, and Elstree in Hertfordshire, England. It was the first medical research charity in the United Kingdom. It was renamed the Jenner Institute (after Edward Jenner, the pioneer of smallpox vaccine) in 1898 and then, in 1903, as the Lister Institute in honour of the great surgeon and medical pioneer, Dr Joseph Lister. In 1905, the institute became a school of the University of London.

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