[Moabit Hospital in Ogai Mori's "Diary in Germany" and its history].

On August 17th, 1887, Dr. Ogai Mori and Dr. Tadanori Ishiguro visited Moabit Hospital (City Hospital of Berlin at Moabit), where later in April, 1891, Dr. Jiro Tuboi learned tuberculin therapy for tuberculosis from Dr. Robert Koch. The history of this hospital is reviewed. In a severe epidemic of smallpox in 1870 to 1871, the City of Berlin provided four temporary institutions to admit the patients, but one of them, borrowed from a field hospital in Tempelhof, had to be removed because of a claim from the military bureau. As a substitute, barracks and accessories were built in the Moabit district in 1872. In the later half of the 19th century, medical demand in Berlin was markedly increased by rapid expansion of population. To meet this demand, following the institution opened in Friedlichshain in 1874, the barracks in Moabit became a city hospital for Berlin citizens in 1875. From 1920, the hospital was affiliated with the University of Berlin. Having overcome difficulties under the National-Socialistic rule, World War II, and the plight in international politics after the war, the hospital serves now, as much as in the past, the citizens of Berlin.