Photographs and drawings, 1858-1965.
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Downstate Medical Center (N.Y.)
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In colonial New York, only a small number of almshouse infirmaries existed to care for the sick, while the mentally ill were usually imprisoned or placed in poorhouses. It was not until the early to mid-19th century, when the New York City area's dependent and poor population increased dramatically, that hospitals and other health services organizations, such as homeopaths and maternity wards, readily began to emerge. In Brooklyn specifically, the earliest hospitals included the Kin...
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Teaching hospital founded in 1858 as a combined hospital and medical school and located in the Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill section of New York City. From the description of Minutes, 1906 Apr. 10. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58760277 The Long Island College Hospital was founded in 1858 and functioned as both a hospital and medical school. Its original building was located on the west side of Henry Street between Pacific and Amity ...
Long Island College of Medicine
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The Long Island College Hospital was founded in 1858 and functioned as both a hospital and medical school. Its original building was located on the west side of Henry Street between Pacific and Amity Streets in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Cobble Hill. Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, as the Hospital acquired additional departments and facilities, it achieved several distinctions in the advancement of institutional medical care: in 1860, for example, the Hos...
