Medieval Europe / Colonial America / Modern Era

Medieval Europe

America's largest colonial Hospicio Cabañas had gone to the hospital. Guadalajara, Mexico
Les Invalides in France in the historic church of hospitals and hospitals in Europe churches.Medieval close relationship between the often Byzantine show a similar pattern to follow. The communities, the care provided by monks and nuns had with the religious. (The hospital is an old French word Hôtel-Dieu, "hostel of God.") Was associated with a number of monasteries, others and property were generally independent of income, their support for their Endowments was. Some hospitals are multi-functional, while other specific purposes leper hospitals, or as established as the poor or for pilgrims: not all sick to care for shelters. The first Spanish hospital, Visigoth Catholic bishop in 580 by Masona located in Merida, a xenodochium an inn for pilgrims was designed in the form of (most of Eulalia of Merida for the temple) and the local farmers and citizens to a hospital pilgrims . Services of the hospital patients and guests to their farms to feed used.


Colonial America
The hospital is the first hospital in the U. S. SAN NICOLAS DE turn [Calle Hostos was] Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional in the Dominican Republic. Nicholas D. riot control Ovando, 1502-1509 of the Spanish colonial administration and the managers, December 29, 1503 approved the construction. The hospital has also apparently a church. The first phase of construction was completed in 1519 and in 1552 was created. in the middle of the 18th century left the hospital now in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo is in ruins.

Conquistador Hernán Cortés in two hospitals in North America as soon as possible: pure Conception of St. Lazarus Hospital and the hospital set up. The oldest pure Conception, the hospital now de Jesus Nazareno in Mexico City, founded in 1524 to care for the poor was.

North America north of Mexico's first hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu Quebec. This new in France in 1639 by three Augustinians from l'Hôtel-Dieu Dieppe was founded in France, the. THE RICHELIEU Cardinal's niece of King Louis XIII of the project by a royal charter was granted, and Dr. Robert Giffard the Moncel manned by colonial.


Modern Era
A secular one in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the medieval concept of Christian care evolved, but the eighteenth century that the modern hospital to appear, only the medical needs of the service is started and staffed with doctors and surgeons was. The Charité (Berlin 1710) is an early example.

Man in hospital in London in 1724 by a wealthy merchant Thomas boys was established in the will. Other London hospitals and more than a century the British in other cities, a number of payments by private subscriptions. £ 2000 Private general membership of the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia in 1751 was chartered by the British American colonies in the assembly with matching funds were made.

Vienna General Hospital opened in 1784, when (immediately), a new medical facility that gradually developed into the most important research centers of the world's largest takeover in the hospital. During the 19th century, the Second Viennese Medical School Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Josef Škoda, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra and Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis with the contribution of the doctors. Extension of basic medical science and advanced expertise. Moreover, the first in the world skin, eye, and ear, nose and throat clinic in Vienna as the birth of medical opinion was adopted. [Citation needed]

The middle of the nineteenth-century Europe and the United States to the public and private hospital had a kind. In continental Europe the new hospitals in general was founded and run by public money. National Health Service, the principles of the health care provider in the United Kingdom, was founded in 1948.

United States of America, a non-profit hospital in the traditional hospital, usually sponsored by a religious denomination is. One of these "poor houses of the earliest of the" what the United States by William Penn in Philadelphia was started in 1713. These hospitals because of their charitable purposes are free, but a minimum of charitable medical care is granted. The major cities and research hospitals in the large public hospitals, often by a medical school attached to the filling. In the U.S., the largest public hospital in New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Bellevue Hospital, the oldest hospital in America, New York University Medical School linked to take over. In the late twentieth century, a series of for-profit hospitals in the United States are