title: [The Hospital Real de Todos-os-Santos and its healing agents].
abstract: The article explores the actions of king Dom João II (1481-1495), who spearheaded a major assistance reform in Portugal during the late fifteenth century, when charitable institutions were grappling with a serious crisis. The king and his queen, Dona Leonor, ordered two large, modern hospitals to be built, centralizing assistance work and cementing a new assistance model. Relying on chronicles and royal decrees from the period, the article focuses on the main hospital that was built then: Hospital Real de Todos-os-Santos, located in Lisbon. The king and queen also intervened heavily in the practice of health agents by regulating, overseeing, and inspecting the work of doctors and apothecaries.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de História, Centro Universitário La Salle do Rio de Janeiro.
authors.forename: Priscila Aquino
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D006076:Government / Q000266:history; D033161:Government Regulation / Q000266:history; D049668:History, 15th Century; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history*; D011174:Portugal