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# 32-33 Golden Square Standing before this elegant Georgian townhouse in the heart of Soho, you're looking at the birthplace of modern laryngology—the moment when Sir Morell Mackenzie transformed the treatment of throat disease from a neglected backwater into a legitimate medical specialty. In 1865...

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32-33 Golden Square

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Sir Morell Mackenzie 1837-1892 founded the world's first hospital for diseases of the throat in a building on this site in 1865