Jewish Doctors and Barber-Surgeons in Zamosc Entail in 17th and 18th Century

• Authors: Partyka W.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

When he set up the city of Zamosc and the Zamosc Entail (Ordynacja Zamojska), Chancellor Jan Zamoyski saw to it that the citizens had guaranteed medical care. This goal was served by importing doctors from other towns, training new ones at the Chancellor's expense and providing conditions for free practicing of medicine to doctors and other medical personnel regardless of nationality or religion. Thanks to that policy of the Chancellor and his successors, many Jews engaged in medicine in Zamosc and throughout the Entail. These were both trained physicians having a doctor's degree and lower-rank personnel, the barber-surgeons. Some of them were on the payroll of the Zamosc court, thanks to which a large proportion of the Entail's subjects were entitled to free health care in the 17th and 18th century.

Keywords

EN

BARBER-SURGEONS; JEWISH DOCTORS; ZAMOSC ENTAIL

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Żydow
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 2(226)
• Pages: 133-143
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Partyka W.

• W. Partyka, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Instytut Pedagogiki, al. Raclawickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA05079658