Essays about: "Kurhuset"

Found 1 essay containing the word Kurhuset.

  1. 1. The Case of Boel Olsdotter

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Historia

    Author : Ingrid Lyberg; [2014]
    Keywords : syphilis; venereal disease; illegitimate child; church rituals; Kurhuset; lock hospital; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : By the mid-19th century, syphilis had been established for several hundred years as a disease associated with immorality, from which the poor in particular suffered. Although hospitals for the treatment of venereal diseases existed in most European countries, there would be no cure for another hundred years, and physicians battled unsuccessfully against disfigurement and death. READ MORE