Hospital History

in the ancient cultures, religion and medicine are related. Know as soon as possible to institutions for the treatment of the Egyptian temples is the goal. Ointment of the Greek temples - Asclepius God for guidance from God in a dream to wait for bad faith can accept the ad hoc. Romans adopted his worship. Roman Æsculapius under his name, said Rome, where he was a ritual similar to the island in the Tiber in the temple (291 BC) was provided.

Sinhalese (Sri Lanka), and perhaps in the world devoted to the concept of hospitals are responsible for the departure. The Mahavamsa, the Sinhalese royalty 6. Century, King Pandukabhaya (4. Century BC) written in the ancient history of homes and hospitals (Sivikasotthi - Sala (built in different parts of the country was a lie. We are not particular institutions for the care of the sick anywhere in the world devoted to the earliest documentary evidence. Mihintale hospital, perhaps the oldest in the world. the old hospitals in Sri Lanka are still remnants of Mihintale, Anuradhapura, and his presence in Medirigiriya.

Institutions, particularly in India for the first time for the care of patients. King Ashoka in California (at least 18 hospitals have been set, .230 BC, doctors and nurses, with the costs borne by the Royal Treasury. Stanley Finger (2001) of the neurological sciences in his book: the history of exploration in the functions of the brain in the form of an Ashokan decree translated says: "All the King Piyadasi (Asoka), hospitals for people and animals to the hospitals. where people, animals and plants treated with two types of building hospitals, which have been purchased and planted a" However, from University College London, and Dominique Wujastyk dispute the argument that this law and the rest of the homes of travelers Ashok () instead of the hospital, and was created for the medicinal herbs, to be misinterpreted because the reference signal / added /

The first teaching hospital where students systematically to patients in the care of doctors as part of the practice of education at the Academy of the Persian Empire in the Gundishapur ear. Specialist, "said a very large extent, and the entire hospital system, the credit of Persia," should be given argument.