The evolution of hospitals from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…One would expect to find the origin of the hospital in the modern sense of the word in Greece, the birthplace of rational medicine in the 4th century BC, but the Hippocratic doctors paid house-calls, and the temples of Asclepius were visited for incubation sleep and magico-religious treatment. …”
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