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Michel de L'Hospital (also known as L'Hôpital, c. 1505-1573) was a French statesman who served during the reigns of four kings – Francis I, Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX – as Councillor of Parlement (1537), Chancellor of the Duchesse...

The Renkioi Hospital, was a complex of innovative prefabricated buildings designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for use during the Crimean War (1853-56). Brunel had been moved by the heavy casualties and even higher deaths via disease during...

An 1889 oil on canvas painting, Hospital in Arles, by Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), the Dutch post-impressionist artist. Painted in April in Arles' hospital where the artist was taken after his first mental crisis in December 1888 when he cut...

The Roman military hospital (or Valetudinarium) in Novae, Bulgaria. Novae was the site of an important Roman fortress along the Danubian border. Like other major Roman fortresses along the borders of the Roman Empire, this fort had its own...

A plan of the innovative pre-fabricated Renkioi hospital designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) for use during the Crimean War (1853-6).

Michel de L'Hospital (c. 1506-1573), Chancellor of France, oil on wood by an unknown French artist, second half of the 16th century. Louvre, Paris.

Statue of Michel de L'Hospital (also known as L'Hôpital, c. 1505-1573), Chancellor of France, Louis-Pierre Deseine, Palais Bourbon, Paris. Photo by DimiTalen, 2016.

A map showing the layout of the innovative pre-fabricated Renkioi Hospital designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) for use during the Crimean War (1853-6). Map drawn by John Brunton.

Michel de L'Hospital, portrait from Bibliotheca sive Thesaurus virtutis by Jean Jacques Boissard, Frankfurt am Main: William Fitzer 1627. Municipal Library of Trento.

The Holy Cross Episcopal Mission, Wounded Knee, South Dakota, used as a hospital for the wounded Lakota Sioux following the Wounded Knee Massacre.