John Eldridge Spratt
| John Eldridge Spratt LFPS Glasgow | |||||||
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8 Bolton Row, Mayfair, W [1874] 18 Berner Street, Oxford Street, W. [1875] 54 Brook-street, Grosvenor Square, W. [1879] | ||||||
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proposed 1874.04.28
Notes From Elsewhere
Dr. Eldridge Spratt’s Sanatorium for Diseases of the Heart at Brighton
The Hospital for Diseases of the Heart was founded in 1857 by Dr Eldridge Spratt at No. 67 Margaret Street. It is reputed to be the first hospital in the world dedicated to the study and treatment of heart disease and the first to introduce postgraduate training.
For some years Dr Spratt was the only physician as well as the secretary and treasurer. Eventually a Committee was appointed, but turnover of members was high, and there was often trouble between the Committee and Dr Spratt.
In 1869 the Hospital moved to No. 83 Newman Street, just off Oxford Street.
From 1874 it moved again, this time to a fine house designed by the Adam brothers at No. 32 Soho Square, the former home of the naturalist, Sir Joseph Banks. The Hospital remained there for forty years.
The Hospital Committee had by this time endured many difficulties with Dr Spratt and he was asked to resign over some financial irregularities. He did, but returned that night to remove much of the contents of the Hospital in a furniture van.
Following Dr Spratt's departure the running of the Hospital improved. Out-patient sessions were held regularly, the number of physicians on the staff having increased to four. The staff did not confine themselves to matters of the heart: publications in the late 19th century included 'Hints on Men and Women', The Effect of Education on the Industrial Classes' and 'Cycling as a Cause of Heart Disease'.
In 1910 a pathology department was opened in an iron shed, and the X-ray department in another. The Hospital's first electrocardiograph was purchased in 1911 though, for lack of room, it was housed at South Kensington. Patients were taken there by cab.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned, Edward Turner and John Eldridge Spratt, who lately carried on the trade or business of Chemist and Druggist, at No. 7, Tichborne street, Haymarket, in the parish of Saint James, Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, under the style or firm of Turner and Spratt, -was dissolved by mutual consent on the 25th day of December 1848, and that in future, the said trade or business of Chemist and Druggist will be carried on by the undersigned John Eldridge Spratt alone, by whom all debts due to or owing from the said late partnership are to be received and paid.—Dated this 14th day March 1849. Edward Turner. J. Eldridge Spratt.
Publications
External Publications
Affections of Heart and Nerves Hardcover – 1880
A Synopsis of the Symptoms of Gout at the Heart: Also a Few Practical Remarks On Epilepsy, Nervousness and Other Kindred Diseases in Relation Thereto
