Publication details
BRNĚNSKÁ ZDRAVOTNÍ ZAŘÍZENÍ A PÉČE O NEMOCNÉ NA PŘELOMU 18. A 19. STOLETÍ
| Title in English | Brno Health Care Institutions and Care of Patients at the Turn of the 18th and 19th Centuries |
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Brno v minulosti a dnes 19 |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Brno Health Care Institutions; Paleopatohology; Brno 18th- 19th Centuries |
| Description | Brno Health Care Institutions and Care of Patients at the Turn of the 18th and 19th Centuries Skeletal remains of about one thousand inhabitants were examined during archeological research of a burial ground situated in Malá Nová street in Brno. The analysis of pathological changes in skeletons involved studying historical sources directed to obtaining information about health state of Brno population at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. At that time, considerable changes were taking place in Brno due to Theresian and Josephine reforms. Most patients were treated at home, but charitably oriented sick houses were changing into therapeutical institutions, hospitals. These involved two monasterial hospitals (Brothers of Mercy Hospital for male patients and Elizabethan Hospital for female patients), and Conjoined Charity Institution for the Needy (a predecessor of the Regional Public General Hospital of St. Anna). Brno health care institutions were led by physicians who, at their period, were top professionals. Increasing medical information started to require narrower specialization, and individual spheres of medicine were developing. Drammatic development of textile industry in Brno connected with a great inflow of inhabitants also raised demands on therapeutical institutions. Therefore Brno therapeutical institutes were extending. Care of patients was also provided by the Military Hospital in Zábrdovice and the Prison Hospital in Špilberk Castle. Since 1846 children were treated at the Childrens Hospital of St. Constantine and Method. |
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