Ophthalmic Surgeon in Jordan: A year's secondment to the St. John Ophthalmic Hospital, Jerusalem
1967; BMJ; Volume: 113; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/jramc-113-04-08
ISSN2052-0468
Autores Tópico(s)Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
ResumoTIlc old city of Jerusalem is full of places of historical interest and is so intimately bound up with the cradle of our religioLls and cultural life that no onc can fail to appreciate some or this atmosphere.On Mount Scopus, overlooking the city from the north east, is a growing prosperous suberb.Here, on part of the site of Titus's camp whilst he was besieging Jerusalem in /\.0.70., is the New Ophthalmic Hospital of St. John, opened in 1960.The area is known as " Sheik Jarrah " from the tomb in the nearby Mosque where Sheik Jarrah is buded.He was Saladin's surgeon and accompanied him on most campaigns.It is said that on one occasion Saladin-traditionally always ' the perfect gentleman '-sent the Sheik to tend our own Richard Coeur-de-Lion.Though the Service of the order of St. John to the Holy Land and the Holy City goes hack in origin to the hospice for pilgrims founded under Gregory in 600 A.D. , the modern foundation of the ophthalmic hospital dates from lR82.The hospital founded then shared in the troubles of the follo\ving :years, being largely destroyed by the Turk s Fig.
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