Hospitals historians Flashcards
Horden - Galen
became the basics for university medical textbooks in the 12th century
Horden - Chaucer
was aware of the non-naturals, his characters suffer physically from melancholy
Horden - Black Death
advice given to avoid “anger, excessive sadness, and anxiety”
encouraged to make peace and stay joyous as death would be less painful
Horden - hospitals as religious
- patients in Florence lay in sight of the sacrament, and ward opened out into a chapel
- cure of the soul came of greater influence than the cure of the body
Horden - Alvise Luisini
physicians could detect physical improvements in patients after one day of confession
Horden - hospital gardens
created positive christian atmosphere
sources of food, but also aromatherapy and aesthetically pleasing
Horden - religion as medicine
argues that primary medicine of all hospitals is religion, and that religion is another kind of medicine
Dahnus - charity
wealthy people used charity as a means to get to God quicker
Yoshikawa - sin
“sin could well be the root of the disease, and the physical healing could result directly from confession”
Siraisi - wealthy women
St. Francesca Romana and St. Catherine of Siena
Siraisi - Fourth Lateran Council
stated that it had to attempt confession before any other treatment
Rawcliffe - hospital staff
highly selective, those turned away if they would hinder positive and christian atmosphere
Rawcliffe - nurses
had to be of “good conversation and repute”
Henderson - hospital architecture
Domus Christi in Dobrovnik had a decorated altar in the patient room
Amundsen - medicine and surgery
the church caused the split
during 12th century renaissance, doctors were also priests, so would need a servant or lay-brother to carry out the work of surgery
