• Rev Invest Clin · Jan 2000

    Historical Article

    [From temples and sanctuaries to hospitals; 6,000 years of history].

    • L de la Garza Villaseñor.
    • Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubirán. lgarzav@quetzal.innsz.mx
    • Rev Invest Clin. 2000 Jan 1; 52 (1): 89-97.

    ObjectiveTo find out when and where the hospitals began, its history and evolution.MaterialReview of books and Journals of personal and Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, libraries about history of medicine and surgery.ResultsDuring the last 5000 years the history of man has been full of events, the beginning and development of hospitals has been one of them. Everything started in Sumeria in 3500 bC, some changes were developed in Egypt, Greece and Rome. In the 4th century aD the first true hospitals are opened. Since then the hospitals had improved until now.ConclusionsThe sick man has been looking for the healing of his ailments, and few places made him feel protected as the hospital does. The birth, growing and evolution of such institutions had been slow and steady until the end of the second millennium aD.

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