Editing Uppsala University (section)

===Uppsala University Hospital===
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The Uppsala Academic Hospital or ''Akademiska sjukhuset'', which functions as a teaching hospital for the Faculty of Medicine and the Nursing School, is run by the Uppsala County Council in cooperation with the university. {{As of|2003}}, the hospital had 7,719 employees and {{As of|2004|lc=on}} 1,079 places for patients.

The university hospital is actually older than the university, as it goes back to the earliest hospital, founded in Uppsala in 1302, and much later merged with the university clinic. This was used for 400 years until the great fire of 1702 which destroyed large parts of central Uppsala. A new hospital, which later became the Uppsala county hospital, was built in its place but was moved out of the town in 1811.
[[File:Uppsala plate 2 from NF 30 (1920) - University hospital.jpg|thumb|The old main building of the Uppsala University Hospital, photograph from c''.'' 1920]]
The first clinic with the specific intention to facilitate the practical education of medical students was the ''Nosocomium Academicum'', founded in 1708 and located at the Oxenstierna Palace at Riddartorget beside the cathedral (see illustration above). The building (the former residence of the president of the Royal Chancellery [[Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna]]) today houses the Faculty of Law.

The present ''Akademiska sjukhuset'' was founded in 1850 as an organizational merger of the county hospital and the university clinic, and a new building was inaugurated in 1867 on the hill below [[Uppsala Castle]] to the southeast. From this building, which is still in use, the present hospital complex has grown.