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Some of the earliest medical advances were made in London spurring the growth of London's Medical Museums.The bodies of criminals executed at Tyburn between 1571 and 1783 were taken to the Surgeon's Hall in the Old Bailey for public dissection& medical teaching. In 1854, John Snow, a London doctor in 1854 discovered the cause of cholera after realising that 500 cases of the disease were clustered around a single water pump alone on Broad Street. The water from this pump was polluted. Penicillin, the most important antibacterial drug ever, was discovered in London in 1928 by Alexander Fleming, a young Scottish doctor . These & many more important medical advances are featured in the many London Medical Museums.

Alexander Fleming Museum

Bethlem Royal Hospital

Chelsea Physic Garden 1673

Cholera & John Snow Pub

Company of Barber-Surgeons 1440

Florence Nightingale Museum

Foundling Museum

Freud Museum

The Old Operating Theatre Museum

London Medical Museums including the Alexander Fleming Museum,Bethlem Royal Hospital, Chelsea Physic Garden 1673 ,Cholera & John Snow Pub,Company of Barber-Surgeons 1440 ,Florence Nightingale Museum, Foundling Museum, Freud Museum and The Old Operating Theatre Museum