Historic and Premodern Hospitals

Hospitals whose significance to this atlas rests chiefly on their place in the history of institutionalized medical care, founded before the modern hospital system took its current form. Belongs here: the bimaristan tradition of the Islamic world, the medieval and early modern European hospital such as the Hotel-Dieu de Paris, and comparably early foundations. Does not belong here: a hospital founded in a similar era that has continued as a major contemporary medical center and is chiefly notable for its present-day clinical or research standing, grouped under hospitals and medical centers.