A doctor of their own: the history of adolescent medicine

quite in the Oslerian super league, the hospital boasted some famous physicians in its fever days. Sir Robert Philip's Tuberculosis Scheme was admired throughout the world. Fever, however, was hardly a useful institutional category after the Second World War and, perhaps predictably, the hospital took under its wings tropical and geriatric medicine as well as various surgical specialities. This is very much a "history from above" book although not bone dry. Reminiscences of former staff enliven much of the material. Some day, someone should write the comparative history of hospital snobbery. The City and the Royal would be a good place to start.