Timothy S. Miller, "The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire"
English | 1997 | ISBN 0801856574 | PDF | 328 pages | 36,7 MB
English | 1997 | ISBN 0801856574 | PDF | 328 pages | 36,7 MB
Medical historians have traditionally claimed that modern hospitals emerged during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Premodern hospitals, according to many scholars, existed mainly as refuges for the desperately poor and sick, providing patients with little or no medical care.