Valetudinaria were said to exist across the empire by the first century CE, both in military camps and in civilian settings. The word itself survives only in a handful of texts, and archaeologists still debate whether the long rectangular ruins we find were truly hospitals or simply barracks. Yet even in the uncertainty, what captures me is the advancement in the Roman world, a vision of medicine as something that could be organized and sustained within an institution or facility. Care was no longer only a physician arriving at the home of the wealthy, or a healer working quietly in a household. This idea of distributing care collectively rather than privately feels analogous to the rise of industrial clinics in England many centuries later, when workers were treated in factory infirmaries or company hospitals.