[The insigne and suntuoso Royal Hospital of Granada (II). Officers and servants in a general hospital (1526-1535)].
After the merging of the two hospitals founded by the Catholic Kings, the Royal Council of Granada extended the centralisation of medical care by incorporating the municipal House of the Insane in the process. The new Royal Hospital, re-founded as a general hospital, offered alms (bread), gave medical and spiritual care to patients with pox and looked after the insane. This was done using officers from the old Alhambra hospital, who found an opportune salvation in the new buildings. Their administrators directed an institution that was highly committed to the dynamics of patronage and client subordination.
Valenuela Candelario
José
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Departmento de A.P. Historia de la Ciencia. Universidad de Granada. E-mail: jvalenz@ugr.es
D002608:Charities / Q000266:history*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000266:history*; D049669:History, 16th Century; D006769:Hospitals, General / Q000266:history*; D013030:Spain