The American hospital of the twentieth century; a treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century . urned into three modernoperating rooms, with sterilizing, instru-ment and work rooms. Entrance forstudents to the major operating roomwas secured by a gallery from the maincorridor. Built-in cabinets (Fig. 83). distilledwater reheaters. and specially designedequipment make this a very completedepartment. OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 67 CHAPTER V. ®l)E jHebical ©nit The fact is recognized more and moreevery year that many
The American hospital of the twentieth century; a treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century . urned into three modernoperating rooms, with sterilizing, instru-ment and work rooms. Entrance forstudents to the major operating roomwas secured by a gallery from the maincorridor. Built-in cabinets (Fig. 83). distilledwater reheaters. and specially designedequipment make this a very completedepartment. OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 67 CHAPTER V. ®l)E jHebical ©nit The fact is recognized more and moreevery year that many diseases and ail-ments which have hitherto been consid-ered surgical cases or which have beenneglected altogether can be treated with-out surgery and with little medicine. Themedical treatment or bath department,as it is called in European countries, isgradually being introduced into the gen-eral hospital plan. Today a careful stu- The hospital boards in this countryhave given little thought to this depart-ment, but in the larger European hospi-tals one will find the medical units withsuch sections as air air FIG. 83. BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL. OPERATING SECTION SHOWING BUILT-IN CASES. dent of hospital architecture will not dareto plan for a complete layout withoutproviding faciHties for some medicaltreatment, if it is nothing more than afew electric-light bakers. We should notgive to the surgeon and the obstetricianall the best rooms of our hospitals, butshould provide space for the present andfor the future for internal medicine andtherapeutics. Electric baths. Gas baths. Radium baths. Sand baths. Sulphur baths. Mud or peat baths. Sun baths. Inhaling and pneumatic chambers. Roentgen-ray, with all its ramifications. To the student of hospital architecturethe question naturally arises: If these 68 THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL
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