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Christine Stevenson. Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2000. Pp. viii, 312. $45.00. ISBN 0-300-08536-2.
Upon his restoration and in large part to commemorate his reign, Charles II began the construction of several new royal palaces, but none were completed by him or his successors. Instead the great secular monuments of the Restoration were hospitals--Bethlem Hospital for the insane in London (1675-76) by Robert Hooke, and the royal military hospitals in Chelsea (1682-89) and Greenwich (begun 1696) by ...
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