[The development of hospital care in Copenhagen from around 1700 until the late 1880].

The development of hospital care in Copenhagen is based on three remarkable buildings, The Royal Frederiks Hospital 1757, the General Hospital (Almindeligt Hospital) 1769 and the Municipal Hospital (Kommunehospital) 1863. Frederiks Hospital being a hospital for sick people, the General Hospital in the beginning was an almhouse for the poor in the capital. Later on this became a real hospital as well. An essential part of the treatment was the offering of a bed and the feeding of the patients, who because of illness, and therefore unemployed, were unable to take care of themselves. When the Municipal Hospital was taking into use, a new ear was initiated into hospital care in Copenhagen. Thus the new medical specialties were established, and the offers of treatment were remarkable enlarged. By this is became attractive for all classes of the community to be in hospital in case of disease. A further advance was a marked improvement of the medical education.