Published 27 March 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1297
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b1297
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Blue plaque honours pioneers in holistic medicine
Zosia Kmietowicz
1 London
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The original home of the "Peckham experiment" has been preserved in history with an English Heritage blue plaque, commemorating its founders, the doctors George Scott Williamson (1884-1953) and Innes Pearse (1889-1978).
Dr Williamson and Dr Pearse founded the Peckham Pioneer Health Centre in 1926 at 142 Queen’s Road, Peckham, in southeast London. The pair dedicated their clinic, which they ran on a voluntary basis with donated money, to family health. They adopted a holistic approach to medicine by encouraging a healthy lifestyle long before it became fashionable.
From their vantage point the doctors could study the health problems of working class and lower middle class people, which together with Dr Pearse’s work linking health and nutrition, became widely recognised.
When they moved to large premises the doctors ran the centre as a club for families. For a small sum members had access to the swimming pool, gym, creche, library, and
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