The hospitals
By: written and illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher.
Series: Nineteenth century America
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Hospitals -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.; Hospitals -- History.
Description: Traces the history of hospitals in the United States from the early pesthouses built to isolate the diseased from the rest of the population to the development of steadily improving institutions for the treatment of the sick during the 19th century.
Notes: Includes index.