01500nas a2200253   4500000000100000008004100001260001300042653001100055653002600066653002600092653002600118653002600144653002200170653001400192653001200206653002700218653002500245100001500270245010100285300001100386490000800397520082700405022001401232       1994                            d  c1994 Apr10aEurope10aHistory, 15th Century10aHistory, 16th Century10aHistory, 17th Century10aHistory, 18th Century10aHistory, Medieval10aHospitals10aHygiene10aMedicine in Literature10aMedicine in the Arts1 aEckart W U00a[The nature of hospitals and hospital review in the late Middle Ages and in early modern times].  a267-810 v1953 a<p>The paper is to point out some characteristic facts on the medieval christian and early modern hospital, its hygienic situation, and its critique. Light will be thrown on the unhealthy effects of keeping cattle in the medieval town, on its problems with water supply and the removal of feces, on the challenges of pestilence and leprosy, and finally on the hygienic state of the early modern European hospital. The source for that will be the didactic picaresque novel "Landstörtzer: Gusman von Alfarche oder Picaro genannt" (1615) by the Jesuit pupil Aegidius Albertinus (1560-1620). Albertinus' novel shows that the early modern hospital sometimes was far from being a clean place, and that someone could catch something like a gastrointestinal disease or even the worse more easily in a hospital than elsewhere.</p>  a0934-8859