Sunday, June 5, 2011

Danviken´s hospital


My ancestor king Gustav Vasa built the first mental hospital in Sweden. In the 1550-ies! (not a hospital in the modern sense of course. No doctors or nurses. Patients were supposed to be cured by the words of God. Streaming out from the church in the middle.) This building at Danviken´s hospital (Stockholm) is "only" from the 18th century. They ought to do a museum of it!

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