Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.17.2.1
THE UNKNOWN HOSPITAL OF THE AUGUSTINIAN HERMITS OF ST. JEROME IN RIJEKA. CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN RIJEKA
Marko Medved
orcid.org/0000-0002-2221-9121
; Teologija u Rijeci – Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Omladinska 14 – HR 51000 Rijeka
Abstract
The Order of St. Augustine (Ordo Eremitarum Sancti Augustini) was the first religious community in Rijeka. The monastery of St. Jerome, founded by the noble families of Devin and Walsee, existed from the 14th century till 1788, when it was dissolved by Joseph II. Unfortunately, the past of the Augustine Monastery of St. Jerome is mostly unknown. On the basis of largely unexplored sources in Croatia and overseas, the author reveals several facts about the relation between Rijeka’s Augustinian community and medicine. The paper includes an important piece of information concerning the existence of a hospital on the location of Andrejšćica in Rijeka, founded in the 15th century, which has so far been unknown. Augustinian’s sources (16th and 18th century) show the presence of several shaver-surgeon (barbitonsorius) and other various relevant topics for the history of medicine in Rijeka – pharmacopola, aromatarius etc.
Keywords
History of medicine 15th-18th century; Convent medicine; Order of Hermits of St. Augustine; Church and Convent of St. Jerome in Rijeka; Rijeka; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
232035
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Publication date:
30.12.2019.
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