Today's hospitals and facilities for medical treatment have a history that dates back to the Roman Empire, when military hospitals were organized to treat and repair the critically important Roman Army. Perhaps the most rudimentary form of the...

Throughout the eighteenth century hospitals opened in the larger cities of Europe and America as industrialization developed and the middle class expanded in those countries. These hospitals were very different from the kinds of hospitals seen in...

Hospitalization Admittance to a hospital as a patient. Whether planned or on an emergency basis, hospitalization causes disruption in the life of any child. However, with the special accommodations that modern hospitals usually make for both children...

Chinese hospitals are the pillars of the urban health care system and an important but not always accessible resource for rural residents with serious illnesses. Most of China’s 16,732 hospitals were built after 1949 in accordance with Chinese...

. From their origin as guesthouses for pilgrims and almshouses for the indigent, medieval hospitals offered custodial care rather than therapy. The sick poor received special attention when monastic infirmaries were extended beyond the cloister in...

There are various types of hospitals, but all are places in which people who need medical treatment are looked after and cared for. The Hindus built the first known hospitals during the 5th century BC in what is now known as Sri Lanka. Hospitals didn't...

(huoguo) Huoguo (hotpots) refers either to the utensil or the dish prepared with it. Made of red copper, a typical huoguo is a vessel with a shaft running through as a hearth and airway. A grate in the hearth holds the charcoal and drops the ashes to...

Institution for diagnosing and treating the sick or injured, housing them during treatment, examining patients, and managing childbirth. Outpatients, who can leave after treatment, come in for emergency care or are referred for services not available...

A hospital is an institution for health care, often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays. Today, hospitals are usually funded by the state, health organizations (for profit or non-profit), health insurances or charities, including...