What contribution did Agnes Hunt make to the history of medicine in Shropshire?
It was the vision of Agnes Hunt and her friendship with one of the leading orthopaedic surgeons of the day, Mr Robert Jones, which was instrumental in the founding of the world famous Orthopaedic Hospital at Oswestry. This is a story of remarkable courage, insight, and devotion in an era when many of the congenital and infectious bone diseases of the day were largely untreatable. This friendship had far greater implications with the founding of one of the foremost treatment and training centres for orthopaedics in Britain. The hospital carries the name of both surgeon and visionary and is known as “The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital”. To find out more about Agnes Hunt click on the image below.
