History of hospitals

1. History of hospitals Charitable refuges for sick & deserving poor provided basic “nursing” care; few doctors paternalistic, with strict discipline contagious cases relegated to asylums By late 18th c., core sites of medical training but physicians’ income came from home visits 1890s, aseptic surgery catered to wealthy private & semi-private rooms avail., 20th c.

2. Pennsylvania Hospital, est. 1751

3. Pennsylvania Hospital in Center City Philadelphia, 8th & Pine St.

4. Major medical technologies of 20thc. c. 1900 x-ray 1920s ECGs 1930s iron lung for polio patients 1950s health insurance expansion encouraged technological entrepreneurship e.g. ultrasound, from WW2 applications 1970s CAT scanners

5. 1902 Patient record &1922 gastrointestinal x-ray form

6. Major medical technologies of 20thc. c. 1900 x-ray 1920s ECGs 1930s iron lung for polio patients 1950s health insurance expansion encouraged technological entrepreneurship e.g. ultrasound, from WW2 applications 1970s CAT scanners

7. Hospital deliveries in UK1880-1980