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GALLERY

Italy, 15 C. & before
da Vinci, Leonardo
Governo e cura degli infermi – The Care of the Sick or The Care and Governance of the Infirm is undoubtedly one of the most famous and oldest depictions of the hospital activities in the world. The fresco is one of six painted by the artist from Siena, Domenico di Bartolo (ca. 1400- ca. 1447). Studying this work will not only reproduce some of the hospital's rooms, but also give an insight into its daily life, which from the early fourteenth century was governed by strict statutes. In the middle there are the Rector and the oblats of the hospital. A surgeon is ready to perform wound care manipulation. To the left, representing physical medicine a carer places a patient on a stretcher, while two physicians discuss the results of an uroscopy. Below, in the centre, a servant washes a young man wounded in the thigh, preparing him for surgery. At right, on the other side, a monk confesses a sick man while two orderlies carry into the room a stretcher.
PEOPLE

Hans von Gersdorff (1455-1529) was a German surgeon and medical writer who lived during the 15th and early 16th centuries. He is best known for his military surgical experience and his influential medical manual, the Feldtbuch der Wundarzney (Field Book of Wound Medicine), which became one of the most widely used surgical textbooks in medieval Europe. His work played a crucial role in shaping the field of surgery, particularly in the treatment of battlefield injuries, amputations, and wound care.