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The Hospitals of the Late 1800s
In the late 1800s hospitals were charitable institutions run by wealthy philanthropists where poor people went for care. In 1887 the first cancer hospital opened its doors to both pain and non-pain patients with cancer. Architecture is a tool of persuasion to convince wealthier people to come to the hospital to be healed.
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