Malta Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/tag/malta/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:08:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 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 Hospitaliers 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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