Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: King Alfonso XIII

  • Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 600 years of history

    Rosa Monteserín Nadal Eap Sardenya, Barcelona, Spain    Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona is the oldest hospital in Spain. It was founded in 1401, after a pest plague and famine caused six medieval hospitals in Barcelona to merge and form the…