Abstract

CANADAS-DE LA FUENTE, Guillermo A.; LUQUE-SANCHEZ, María E.  and  CRESPO-MUNOZ, Francisco J.. The sanitary care in Isabel de Valois ‘court. Index Enferm [online]. 2007, vol.16, n.58, pp.75-77. ISSN 1699-5988.

Among the documents concerning the functioning of Queen Isabel de Valois ‘court, it is possible to find fundamental information to know something about the duty of sanitary professionals in the sixteenth century, in this case circumscribe to the royal environment. The necessity to watch over the health of the court was as outstanding as any other matter worthy of the attention of the high civil servants in charge of the correct course in the state affairs. For this reason, the management and administration of the health resources in the court environment generated an interesting documentation preserved in Casa y Sitios Reales of the Archivo General de Simancas, and we will analyze a significant sample of it in this article.