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Detroit’s Hospitals, Healers, and Helpers (MI) (Images of America)

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The up to date hospital evolved from both military garrisons and poorhouses. It wasn’t until the mid-19th century that facilities with a much wider purpose were founded in Detroit to combat diseases like cholera, tuberculosis, and mental illness. Religious institutions and benevolent societies established homes and remedy centers for the in poor health and abandoned, whilst public institutions were created for the first actual time. This fascinating pictorial history of health care in the Detroit area features over 200 photographs and postcards of early hospitals, sanitariums, and orphanages, and the kindhearted people who staffed them. From St. Mary’s, founded in 1845 and later referred to as Detroit Memorial Hospital, to Henry Ford Hospital, founded in 1915, this book documents the variety of institutions that sought to relieve or cure medical conditions. These types of historic facilities no longer exist, and are known only by the photographs that preserve them. The images provide a rare glimpse of what health care used to be like on the turn of the century.

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