Hospitals, their history, construction, and hygiene, (being a thesis for graduation at the University of Edinburgh for which a gold medal was awarded) / by J. Francis Sutherland.

  • Sutherland, J. Francis (John Francis), 1854-1911.
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[1882]
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Credit: Hospitals, their history, construction, and hygiene, (being a thesis for graduation at the University of Edinburgh for which a gold medal was awarded) / by J. Francis Sutherland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    more especially tlie Crusades, and the rapid spread of lepiosy. iVbout the fifteenth century field- hospitals were established, in which—strange to say —the wounded were not treated by the army sur- geons, but by the clergy. With the exception of an institution established for the reception of the sick, a.d. 1070, mentioned in the life of Lisfranc, England was possessed of no hospital until the founding of St. Bartholomew’s in 1102 by Bahere, minstrel of Henry I. It was reorganized in 1547 by Henry YIII., and recon- structed in 1730. Then followed St. Thomas’s in 1207, removed eight years later to a better locality by the Bishop of Winchester, for reasons which the present age would scarcely credit—reasons which showed that there 'svere a few individuals even then who appreciated pure ah- and water (Highmore, p. 72). Bethlehem Hospital—the oldest lunatic asylum in Europe save that at Grenada—was founded in 1547. These three were included in the “ Five Boyal Hospitals ” of London, which, prior to the Beforma- tion, were monasteries in which the sick were cared for by the clergy. Guy’s, London, was erected in 1724, the London in 1740, St. George’s m 1733, and Westminster in 1719. The famous old Edinburgh Boyal Infirmary, the first reared in Scotland, traces its origin to the year 1721. For want of funds its erection was delayed till August, 1738. The means by which it was erected being unique, they are worthy of more than a pass-