hospital
A hospital (there is not a thumbtack British:) Hospital) sponsors medical care for illness and a disease, and it is an institution accommodating a sick person. Originally words called "Hospital" are words of the implication called "the labor camp of the disabled and the sick person"; (as for the etymology, same as hotel). After the Meiji era, it is common that words called "the hospital" were called on as an equivalent for words called this "Hospital". Therefore "Hospital" in many foreign countries is used in a nursing home, an old people's home, the meaning of the orphan home. It was said to Ooita that it was established in 1557 by propagator Lewis of Portugal which was a doctor, and it possessed surgery, internal medicine, Hansen's disease department that it was said the first hospital in Japan. This is called the place where Western medicine was introduced into for the first time. In the foreign countries, that it gathers sick people so that a Christian sister / monk serves God, and it did care in the everyday life is done with an opening, and it is the origin of the nursing activity. Because a medical act is a traditional act performed for a long time, there are cultural heritage and the thing that it was it in the history having a long about the hospital. Mexican and Spanish sun Hospital, a large mosque and hospital of of Turkey are good examples. A role to say that I offered a meal and a bed to the patient I isolated an infectious disease patient and a mental patient rather than a place of almost treatment with the hospital until large mosque and hospital modern times of Hospital or was poor was bigger. Therefore the ward for poors was always a capacity overcoat, and that it was not thought that several people shared one bed by the present to say was performed.