HISTORY
Aston Alumni Magazine — 2018
Fifteen minutes from campus, past Snow Hill station and towards Constitution Hill, the road bends to the right into Summer Lane. Today this nondescript street is populated with industrial units, but in the late 18th century, on the spot where West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive now has a Brutalist office block, Birmingham’s first hospital stood. This might not, in itself, seem extraordinary, but Birmingham General Hospital was a long time coming - 34 years, in fact. Once established, however, it fostered some discoveries that would become landmarks of medical history.
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BIRMINGHAM’S MEDICAL PIONEERS
