This paper presents a new, only recently identified source on Saxon hospitals in the Middle Ages, a list, compiled between 1553 and 1586 under the government of elector August (1526-1586), of the districts and towns with hospitals for old and poor people, sickly persons, lepers, syphilitics and patients with other infectious diseases. Run by the towns or, partially, in connection with monasteries and churchs, by the court of Dresden too, these institutions provided lodging, nourishment, clothes and physical care to the indigent inmates. A medical therapy in a stricter sense was the exception in that s time.
BT - Wurzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19230368?dopt=Abstract DA - 2008 J2 - Wurzbg Medizinhist Mitt LA - ger N2 -This paper presents a new, only recently identified source on Saxon hospitals in the Middle Ages, a list, compiled between 1553 and 1586 under the government of elector August (1526-1586), of the districts and towns with hospitals for old and poor people, sickly persons, lepers, syphilitics and patients with other infectious diseases. Run by the towns or, partially, in connection with monasteries and churchs, by the court of Dresden too, these institutions provided lodging, nourishment, clothes and physical care to the indigent inmates. A medical therapy in a stricter sense was the exception in that s time.
PY - 2008 SP - 93 EP - 104 T2 - Wurzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen TI - [An old document about hospitals, leprosy and pestilence houses in electorate of Saxony]. VL - 27 SN - 0177-5227 ER -