Huweikai hospital

Huweikai hospital

Huweikai hospital is one of the historic sites in Taipei County, Taiwan Province. It is also the first Western-style hospital in Taiwan. It was founded on September 14, 1879 and was presided over by Dr. Mackay. This was also his residence.

Academic concept

Hospital, in modern times and modern times, means hospital, and in ancient times it means the same.

Historical evolution

Ancient hospital and its nickname, ancient people sick where to see a doctor? At the doctor's house. But this "doctor's home" is not specific and accurate. To be exact, it should be a hospital.

In ancient times, doctors often divided their homes into some halls and rooms to set up a "medical library" for diagnosis and rest of seriously ill patients. Most of the medical centers are medicine shops and medical centers that sell medicine and diagnose diseases. The medicine shops set up by hermit doctors (miracle doctors, witch doctors, etc.) in the suburbs, deep mountains and deep valleys can also be regarded as medicine houses (this kind of medicine shop is common in novels, but most of the medicine shops in the city are pure medicine shops).

Huweikai hospital

The architectural style of huweikai medical center is a combination of Chinese and Western styles. The exterior is a South Fujian style bungalow, but the windows are Western-style arched windows, and there are still operating tables and medicine bottles in the interior.

Huweikai medical center is located on Mackay street, Tamsui Town, Taiwan, near Tamsui chapel.

Another name of medical school

A hospital is sometimes called a medical house

Development bottleneck

In ancient times, only the well-known senior doctors with excellent skills in traditional Chinese medicine could be invited by high officials and dignitaries to visit their families for medical treatment. Naturally, there would be a lot of rewards. How many doctors who don't worry about money will be idle and bored to open a hospital at home all day waiting for patients to come and earn some "extra money"? You know, it's better to study medical books and herbs than to earn a small sum of money from ordinary patients.

On the contrary, most of the doctors who open hospitals are talented but not well-known. If they are not well-known, naturally, few people come to visit them. In addition, those with high status naturally seek "good" (well-known) doctors, while those with low status are poor and reluctant to spend their "spare money" to see a doctor. Generally speaking, they only drink ginger soup and white water when they are sick, and they can make it through.

As a result, the hospital was deserted, and many doctors began to work as part-time pharmacists. However, there were still many people who could not open the hospital. Therefore, there were very few ancient hospitals.

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Huweikai hospital

The architectural style of huweikai medical center is a combination of Chinese and Western styles. The exterior is a South Fujian style bungalow, but the windows are Western-style arched windows, and there are still operating tables and medicine bottles in the interior.

Huweikai medical center is located on Mackay street, Tamsui Town, Taiwan, near Tamsui chapel.

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Address: 6 Mackay street, 251 Taiwan

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