POOR RELIEF IN THE METROPOLIS.

Poor Relief in Sixteenth

Monastic poor relief in sixteenth-century England.

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Redistribution , Poor Relief , and the Welfare State Richard

Health care and poor relief in Protestant Europe 1500–1700

Most are to be found in the chronology; where, p. 316, Diocles is credited with the first Green Herbal (read "Greek anatomy"); plague in Britain ends in 1392; and syphilis breaks out in 1490. The decision to insert all entries referring to a century at the head of entries for that century, and to place individuals by their date of birth results in some curious juxtapositions. Misprints are comm...

Medical Examination and Poor Relief in Early Modern Germany

This article investigates the role of the medical examination in municipal poor relief programmes between 1570 and 1620. Documents from the city of Nördlingen, a community of approximately 10,000 people in 1600, suggest that municipal facilities addressed a range of serious illnesses for a wide spectrum of the population. Practitioners were influenced by their Galenic medical milieu but ultimat...