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- theatre/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="0fcd36e06d9711630d9c7b5159d71828" target="_blank" >anatomical theatre: A room fitted with seats for the demonstration to medical students of dissections, the giving of lectures with explanation of models, and the like. The need of bringing every student very close to the table, etc., has caused the elaboration of a scheme of seating, which has been used also in surgical theatres, in hospitals, and to a limited extent elsewhere.
- asylum: Originally a place of sanctuary; now a building for the shelter and care of children or patients with more or less chronic illnesses.
- diaconia: A chamber or building dependent upon a church and placed under the care of a deacon, for the relief of the poor, aged, or inform; either as a hospital, asylum, or place for dispensing charity. The term is mediaeval, thought it is said to be still used in Germany.
- dispensary: That part of a hospital given over to dispensing medicines and the like, and, by extension, the department where outpatients are received.
- hospital: A building for the care of the sick.
- hotel-dieu/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="8c4ba6b9929adf37f967e10fa067ec0e" target="_blank" >hotel Dieu: A hospital.
- infirmary: A room or building in which patients are received for, or given, treatment.
- kurhaus: A pavilion/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="35171d6c5e4a2fef4ee18ff701de4ce4" target="_blank" >central pavilion in a health resort.
- kursaal: The central gathering-room of a kurhaus.
- house/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="8457e28c2135a3792555d7a8d6a7d129" target="_blank" >lazar house: A hospital for those afflicted with contagious diseases of very dangerous character; perhaps originally the same as the French ladrerie, which is generally considered a hospital for lepers only…
- lazaretto: A segregated area for infectious medical patients, especially for their quarantine.
- lunatic asylum: See asylum.
- maison dieu: Early French term for a hospital.
- muristan: A medieval Muslim hospital.
- nosocomium: A hospital or infirmary for the poor. Also see nosokomion.
- nosokomion: A hospital or infirmary for the poor. Also see nosokomion.
- pest-house/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="054350cc2fbeacd7430b3622cfbdfd78" target="_blank" >pest house: See lazar house.
- spa: Named after the town in present-day Belgium, it is a medicinal spring or well with supposedly beneficial waters, so also a town, locality, or resort possessing such features. Numerous spas flourished in Europe, and even in and around London in the 18th c.
- spital: A hospital.
- valetudinarium: In Roman antiquity, an infirmary or hospital.
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