The craft of healing and caring from the perspective of terminology

Abstract

With this work we intend to carry out a study about the most frequent terminology used by nurses during the XVI-XVII century. According to classification and meaning of each health-related word, many of them allow us to come to conclusions about the various crafts of healing and caring and subsequently to obtain a good perspective of nursing and medicine during that period. All these terms and words about techniques, procedures, administration of the different medicines, diseases -some of then unknown in our days-, clarify the role of nurses in those centuries, their limitations and recognition. Among the conclusions, the relevance of the different theories, religion and popular beliefs is remarked upon.

Keywords

• Enfermería
• Cuidados
• Terminología
• Siglos XVI-XVII