Hospitals and asylums of the world
Subtitle: their origin, history, construction, administration, management, and legislation, with plans of the chief medical institutions accurately drawn to a uniform scale, in addition to those of all the hospitals of London in the Jubilee Year of Queen Victoria's reign.
Publisher: Churchill
Published: 1891
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Hospitals, Nervous and mental; Hospitals
First sentence: Introduction: For twenty-five years the author has been engaged in the administration of hospitals and kindred institutions, and during the earlier part of that period he gained practical experience in every department of the work by active participation, first as a paid official and subsequently as governor and hospital manager.
Chapter One of Volume One: Little or nothing is known about the treatment of the insane in pre-Christian days.
Notes: Library of Congress only has a microfilmed version and that is the LCCN given for this book, the LC call number is not entered, because the book does not have a standard LC call number.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Asylums - history and administration.-  v. 2. - Asylum construction, with plans and bibliography.-  v. 3.- Hospitals - history and administration.-  v. 4. Hospital construction, with plans and bibliography.-  Portfolio of plan.