Title
Women working in the area of surgery at the Hospital of the Five Wounds of Seville during the XVIth to XVIIIth century
Other title
Las mujeres que trabajaban na área de cirugía do Hospital das Cinco Llagas de Sevilha durante os XVI XVI al XVIII Las mujeres que trabajaban en el área de cirugía del Hospital de las Cinco Llagas de Sevilla durante los siglos XVI al XVIII
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
review
Publisher(s)
Universidad de Alicante
Abstract
The objective of this work is to know the area of surgery of the Hospital of the Five Wounds and the group of people who worked there, mainly, the surgical nurses from 1500 to 1808. Regarding the methodology, the first phase of the study included an archival review of primary sources of diverse archives and bibliographic of secondary sources to know the state of the question. Then, I proceeded to interpret and analyze the data. The main results indicate that this area only received wounded women, who were admitted to the surgery room, called San Juan, where they received the care of the surgeon mother and her maids who followed the prescriptions given by the surgeon. The instruments handled in this area were bandages, tweezers, syringes, scissors, knives, saws, irons to cauterize and even a gynecological instrument called the speculum matricis. The results indicate that this hospital could be a reflection of the development of the surgery and its personnel in the Castilian hospitals of the Modern Age. Area that would be quite structured at the end of the 16th century, in which the binomial surgeon and surgery nurse stand out and the crucial role that the latter plays in the care of the injured in a Spanish hospital.
Start page
63
End page
80
Issue
51
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Cirugía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85116812072
Source
Cultura de los Cuidados
ISSN of the container
11381728
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Scopus