The Liverpool Homeopathic Hospital was a hospital in
Liverpool
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,
England
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, that specialized in
homeopathic
Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called homeopaths, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a dise ...
treatments.
History
The facility was founded as the Liverpool Hahnemann Hospital and Dispensaries in 1887.
The hospital building at 42-56
Hope Street, designed by
F & G Holme
F & G Holme were two Liverpool architects, Francis Usher Holme (c.1844-1913), and his uncle, George Holme (1822 or 3-1915), who lived during the 19th century. Their designs include, amongst others, the County Sessions House the Municipal Annexe a ...
, is an example of the
Queen Anne revival style. It is now a Grade II listed building. It was the first hospital in the
United Kingdom
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to contain early hydraulic lifts and an innovative heating and ventilation system. It joined the
National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...
in 1948. Renamed as the Hahnemann Hospital in 1969,
[ it was eventually closed in 1976.][ It later became part of Liverpool John Moores University.]
References
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Defunct hospitals in England
Homeopathic hospitals in the United Kingdom
1887 establishments in England
1976 disestablishments in England
Grade II listed buildings in Liverpool
Unused buildings in Liverpool
Grade II listed hospital buildings