Article ID: CBB001210673

Medical Examination and Poor Relief in Early Modern Germany (2011)

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This article investigates the role of the medical examination in municipal poor relief programmes between 1570 and 1620. Documents from the city of Nördlingen, a community of approximately 10,000 people in 1600, suggest that municipal facilities addressed a range of serious illnesses for a wide spectrum of the population. Practitioners were influenced by their Galenic medical milieu but ultimately focused on a range of practical resource questions rather than the diagnosis of an individual's disease.

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Authors & Contributors
Bethany Philpott
Alexa Grob
Giorgio Giulio Santonocito
Hausse, Heidi
Wilmshurst, Sara
Grafton, Anthony
Concepts
Medicine
Public health
Medicine and government
Medicine and society
Health care
Poverty
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
Early modern
20th century
18th century
Medieval
Places
Germany
United States
Europe
Ottoman Empire
San Francisco (California)
England
Institutions
Institut für Infektionskrankheiten, Berlin
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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