hospital Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/tag/hospital/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:10:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 The Sacra Infermeria or Holy Infirmary of Malta https://bshm.org.uk/the-sacra-infermeria-or-holy-infirmary-of-malta/ https://bshm.org.uk/the-sacra-infermeria-or-holy-infirmary-of-malta/#respond Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:08:14 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=21280 Founded in 1299, Malta’s Santo Spirito Hospital was more than 200 years old when the Knights Hospitalier arrived on the island and decided a new hospital was needed. Arpan Banerjee tells the story of a hospital ahead of its time. The Knights Hospitalier were a proud military order of the Catholic Church founded in the […]

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]]> https://bshm.org.uk/the-sacra-infermeria-or-holy-infirmary-of-malta/feed/ 0 The Royal Lancaster Infirmary Collecting Barrel  https://bshm.org.uk/the-royal-lancashire-infirmary-collecting-barrel/ https://bshm.org.uk/the-royal-lancashire-infirmary-collecting-barrel/#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:07:21 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=19548 Soon after its opening in 1896, the general committee of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) discovered that they needed an additional £4200 for essential items. Bryan Rhodes describes an object used to raise funds. Building work on the new Lancaster Infirmary began in 1893, and by 1896 this ‘state of the art’ new hospital was […]

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