page_title: Charing Cross Hospital
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Charing Cross Hospital / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Charing Cross Hospital in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London, Great Britain. Camera location51°&#160;29′&#160;10.42″&#160;N, 0°&#160;13′&#160;07.19″&#160;W&#160;&#160;&#160;View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth The making of this file was supported by Wikimedia UK. To see other files made with the support of Wikimedia UK, please see the category Supported by Wikimedia UK.
context_page_description: Charing Cross Hospital is an acute general teaching hospital located in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom. The present hospital was opened in 1973, although it was originally established in 1818, approximately five miles east, in central London.
  It is part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and is a teaching hospital of the Imperial College School of Medicine. It is a tertiary referral centre for neurosurgery, and is a national centre of excellence for gestational trophoblastic disease. It currently houses the serious injuries centre for West London. In recent times, the hospital has pioneered the clinical use of CT scanning.
  The hospital is host to the West London Neuroscience Centre. In addition, a day surgery unit, the Riverside Wing, was recently added. The West London Mental Health NHS Trust also has buildings on site. The hospital hosts the largest and oldest gender identity clinic in the country, with 150 operations performed annually.
context_section_description: The following are notable alumni:
  David Livingstone, who qualified as a doctor at the hospital but went on to be a famous explorer.
  Thomas Huxley, who qualified as a doctor at the hospital and whose works include 'Zoological Evidences of Man's Place in Nature' and 'Evolution and Ethics'.
  John Astley Bloxam, a pioneering surgeon at the hospital who, according to the Royal College of Surgeons, "excelled in the plastic surgery necessary to repair the noses and lips of those who had been the subjects of syphilitic ulceration".
  Henry Hyde Salter, a physician at the hospital who extensively described Asthma.
  Viscount Addison, who worked at the hospital and is accredited with naming 'Addison's transpyloric plane', a part of the human body used as a surgical landmark.
  Dr Herbert Barrie, a consultant pediatrician at the hospital who developed one of the first special care baby units in London and the country’s first neonatal ambulance.
caption: Mental Health Unit building
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