Nyvang Hospital is designed as a small provincial hospital from the 1940s. The ward accommodates both adults and children. Take a close look at the bedside tables, in the cabinets, and around the different rooms. You’ll find the patient’s cup with false teeth, a practical commode chair, syringes and needles, an ether anesthesia mask, and a jar with a tapeworm. There’s also a consultation room, an X-ray room with a skeleton, and an operating room with equipment from the former hospital on Ærø.
The first Danish hospitals were attached to monasteries and also housed the elderly and the poor. In 1757, the first true hospital in Denmark, Frederiks Hospital in Copenhagen, was established. Fifty years later, there were 11 hospitals outside of Copenhagen, but growth accelerated rapidly after that. Over the next century, many new hospitals were built, both in cities and rural areas. Many of these hospitals were small, often with only one chief physician. Untrained attendants were gradually replaced by trained nurses, who were always unmarried and often lived in a room at the hospital.
Nyvang Hospital is designed as a small provincial hospital from the 1940s. The ward accommodates both adults and children. Take a close look at the bedside tables, in the cabinets, and around the different rooms. You’ll find the patient’s cup with false teeth, a practical commode chair, syringes and needles, an ether anesthesia mask, and a jar with a tapeworm. There’s also a consultation room, an X-ray room with a skeleton, and an operating room with equipment from the former hospital on Ærø.
The first Danish hospitals were attached to monasteries and also housed the elderly and the poor. In 1757, the first true hospital in Denmark, Frederiks Hospital in Copenhagen, was established. Fifty years later, there were 11 hospitals outside of Copenhagen, but growth accelerated rapidly after that. Over the next century, many new hospitals were built, both in cities and rural areas. Many of these hospitals were small, often with only one chief physician. Untrained attendants were gradually replaced by trained nurses, who were always unmarried and often lived in a room at the hospital.
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