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Word: chimborazo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest military hospital that ever existed in the U.S. was the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond in the Civil War. It had 9,000 beds in 150 wooden buildings much like modern temporary barracks (the biggest present-day civil hospitals are state institutions for the insane, which rarely exceed 5,000 beds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Army Medicine 1775-1943 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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