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Israel
o Moses was recognized as the Father of Sanitation and
wrote in Old Testament which:
Emphasized the practice of hospitality to strangers
and acts of charity
Promulgated laws of control on the spread of
communicable disease and the ritual of
circumcision of the male child
Referred to nurses as midwives, wet nurses or
childs nurses whose acts were compassionate
and tender
China
o Believed that in using girls clothes for male babies keep
evils away from them
o Prohibited the dissection of dead human body as a
worship to ancestors
o They gave the world knowledge of material medica
(pharmacology)
India
o Men of medicine built hospitals, practiced an intuitive form
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Rome
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Religious taboos and social restrictions influenced nursing at the time of the
Religious Nursing orders
Hospitals were poorly ventilated and the beds were filthy
There was overcrowding of patients: 3 or 4 patients regardless of diagnosis or
whether dead or alive, may have shared one bed.
Practice of environmental sanitation and asepsis were non-existent
Older nuns prayed with and took good care of the sick, while younger nuns
washed soiled linens, usually in the rivers.
St. Catherine of Siena. The first Lady with a Lamp. She was a hospital nurse,
prophetess, researcher and a reformer of society and the church.
In 16th century, hospitals were established for the care of the sick where hospitals
were gloomy, cheerless, airless and unsanitary. People entered hospitals only
under compulsion or as a last resort.
Dark Period of Nursing
(17th to 19th century)
There were no provisions for the sick, no one to care for the sick