Hospital care for the insane in Barcelona, 1400-1700 Teresa Huguet-Termes, Jon Arrizabalaga Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2010 The care of the insane in late medieval and early modern welfare institutions has attracted the attention of historians in the last few decades. The Spanish kingdoms were especially representative of a new perception of madness which, at least since the fifteenth century, had considered the mentally disordered as suffering from an illness, rather than as criminals or even as possessed by demons. As a consequence, not only did the mentally ill start to be admitted to and cared for at welfare institutions, but they were also considered as deserving specific assistance, as much historiography about hospitals in Spain has already indicated through mentioning the existence of special wards and servants devoted to their care. For most of the last century and a half, the historiography of the care of the insane in later medieval and early modern Spain has been dominated by
Madrid hospitals and welfare in the context of the Hapsburg Empire. Medical History Supplement, 2009
Islamic pharmacology and pharmacy in the Latin West: An approach to early pharmacopoeias Teresa Huguet-Termes European Review, 2008 During the final decade of the 15th century and the first half of the 16th century, there were moves to harmonize pharmaceutical therapy in a number of areas of the Mediterranean and Central Europe. The most evident consequence was the appearance of books of compilations of simple and compound remedies specially selected from a wide range of earlier pharmacological literature. These compilations were set up as ‘standards’ by the authorities concerned with public health in many states. In theory, apothecaries were obliged to follow these ‘official’ instructions for preparing and dispensing drugs in order to ensure that the medicines prescribed by physicians were correctly made up and safe. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the persistence of Arabic drugs and recipes through the content of three of these handbooks between 1499 and 1618.
