Queens+Square

[|Queen Square] - On the 24th he’d [Rivers] accepted an invitation to visit Queen Square.” (Barker 223) Originally founded in 1859 as the National Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System including Paralysis and Epilepsy, it is called Queen Square because there was a statue of Queen Charlotte in the [|square] it was located on. It is now officially called the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and is sometimes called The National as well. It is also now affiliated with the [|University College London Hospitals]. It was the first hospital in England devoted solely to diseases of the nervous system. Over the years many very famous people have worked there, including [|Sir Roger Bannister] (the first person to run a sub four minute mile), Henry Head, Dr. Yealland and [|William Allen Sturge]. Queens Square is the hospital in London where Dr. Yealland worked on the neurasthenic patients coming back from the front during World War I. He practiced methods of electroshock therapy opposed to the more humane Freudian methods used by Rivers. Henry Head also worked there at one point in his career. It is not however, the hospital where Rivers is working, but merely one he visited. NDB + AC