Editing Finsbury (section)

===Medical district===
Before [[Harley Street]] rose to prominence, Finsbury was London's principal medical district. In the mid-19th century it was home to a large number of hospitals,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Black |first1=Nick |title=The lost hospitals of St Luke's |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |date=2007 |volume=100 |issue=3 |pages=125–129 |doi=10.1177/014107680710000310 |pmid=17339307 |pmc=1809165 }}</ref> but now only Moorfields Eye Hospital remains.
[[File:Finsbury moorfields eye hospital 1.jpg|thumb|Finsbury Moorfields Eye Hospital]]

The area included the following hospitals:
* [[Royal Chest Hospital|Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest]]
* [[Moorfields Eye Hospital|Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields)]]
* [[St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics]]
* French Huguenot Hospital
* St Mark's Hospital for Fistula and other Diseases of the Rectum
* Holborn & Finsbury Poor Law Union
* [[Bethlem Hospital]], on the site of what is now [[Finsbury Circus]]