title: The Seamen's Hospital Society: a progenitor of the tropical institutions.
abstract: 1999 marks the centenary of the two major British Schools of Tropical Medicine, founded in London and Liverpool, respectively. The origin(s) of the former clearly lies in the Seamen's Hospital Society, which dates from 1821. It seems likely that the foundation of this school (with Government support) also acted as a catalyst for the school at Liverpool, which in fact opened its doors a few months before that in London.
authors.affiliation: The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Cook
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D006772:Hospitals, Military / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D009326:Naval Medicine / Q000266:history*; D014330:Tropical Medicine / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom