Tag: Medical history
Infirmaries in Bavaria: How leprosy patients lived in the Middle Ages – Bavaria
Infirmaries used to be plentiful in Bavaria. The oldest of the 220 leprosariums documented in the Free State, as the facilities are also called, dates from 1088 and, like most…
Infirmaries in Bavaria: How leprosy patients lived in the Middle Ages – Bavaria
Once upon a time there were 220 so-called infirmaries in Bavaria, in which leprosy patients lived in the Middle Ages. Were these prison-like places of exclusion? Or more like hospices…
SZ Podcast “The Topic” – July 19th, 2023 – Health
The German pharmaceutical company Grünenthal from Stolberg brought the drug Contergan onto the market in 1957. A prescription-free, over-the-counter sleep aid that’s advertised worldwide as harmless and “completely non-toxic.” Since…
Will Munich get a museum for the history of medicine? – Munich
High ceilings, white walls, sunlight falls through the window front onto the floor. The senior taxidermist Alfred Riepertinger is not standing in a modern reception room, but in the middle…
Erlangen: Auschwitz Committee demands receipt of the “HuPfla” – Bavaria
The former sanatorium and nursing home should “under no circumstances be demolished,” according to a statement by the organization, which is committed to dignified commemoration of all groups of victims.…
Uni Erlangen: The demolition of the “HuPfla” should be stopped – Bavaria
comment by Olaf Przybilla If you want to find out more about the relationship between the medical faculty and the rest of the university in Erlangen, you should go to…
Comment: Historical responsibility must not be sacrificed for research success
Medicine is considered the pride of the city and university of Erlangen. However, there are increasing signs that many things are subordinated to the will to excellence. That would be…
Erlangen: The dispute over a “euthanasia” site is coming to a head – Bavaria
The medical ethicist Andreas Frewer recently in an SZ interview called to preserve the remaining wing of the historical sanatorium and nursing home (HuPfla) in Erlangen. According to him, the…
Erlangen: Doctors call for a demolition stop at a historic sanatorium – Bavaria
The organization “Doctors for Peace and Social Responsibility” calls for a stop to the demolition work on the historic sanatorium and nursing home (HuPfla) in Erlangen. In a letter to…
Smallpox is much older than thought – health
The plague struck everyone, even those who had previously been perfectly healthy. Those affected developed a fever and stank from the mouth, their eyes became inflamed, coughing and vomiting followed,…