Hospital and City Animals: the Example of Rabies and Antirabies Institute of the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan
Authors
Bruno Falconi
Department of Medical Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia
Daniela Bellettati
U.O.S. Cultural heritage. IRCCSCa’ Granda Foundation, Policlinico Hospital of Milan
Carlo Cristini
Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences University of Brescia
Paolo Maria Galimberti
U.O.S. Cultural heritage. IRCCSCa’ Granda Foundation, Policlinico Hospital of Milan
Lorenzo Lorusso
Neurology Operational Unit “Mellino Mellini” Hospital of Chiari
Alessandro Porro
Department of Clinical and Community Sciences University of Milan
Antonia Francesca Franchini
Department of Clinical and Community Sciences University of Milan
Keywords:
Antirabies institute , Ospedale Maggiore of Milan, XIX century
Abstract
The Archive of the Ospedale Maggiore (Major Hospital) of Milan (Italy), active continuously for nearly 600 years, can provide outstanding documentation illustrating the link between animals and hospital. Even animals in the city can be in contact with the humans’ hospital. We refer to the creation into the Milanese Hospital, in the last years of the nineteenth century, of the Istituto Antirabico (Antirabies Institute) for administering the Pasteur’s antirabies therapy. This paper analyzes specifically this hospital institution, whose archive was recently reorganized.
