Review article

TRACES OF THE PAST IN THE LIGURIAN HEALTH CARE

Angelo Stefanelli

Abstract

The oldest records on Ligurian hospitals are linked with the history of the so called
“pievi” (rural churches); but reliable data before the year one thousand are rare and
incomplete. The medieval Genoa was well provided with hospices outshone by the rising
star of the Pammatone Hospital in 1471. This became the major city hospital and
it lasted for five centuries. Many quarantine hospitals spread outside the city limits the
Ligurian Riviera and were used; above all; when big epidemics of plague; cholera and
the like would break out.

Keywords

history of hospitals; Genoa; Italy

Hrčak ID:

101760

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/101760

Publication date:

15.12.2004.

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