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In the Old Spanish Regime, male and female doormen played a crucial role in controlling the flow of people and things into to, and out of, hospitals; a role that increased in importance after the Council of Trent. In hospitals that treated patients of both sexes, separation was clearly marked by a division inside the building where the area for women was guarded by a female doorman who sternly controlled entry through a turnstile behind which other women readied everything the hospital needed in terms of food preparation and laundering bedclothes and clothing belonging to both patients and hospital staff This article examines the cases of selected hospitals in the city of Seville. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to compare the changes in the institutional work of male and female care in three hospitals in the Castilian area during the Old Regime to the transit to Contemporary Age. Case studies are the hospital of San Hermenegildo and the hospital of the Five Wounds, both located in Sevilla capital. These hospitals will be compared with the hospital of Saint Bartholomew of Lima in the Viceroyalty of Perú. In the transition of the modernity to the contemporary Age, the political and institutional support that received the development and study of the medicine in the Spanish monarchy, transformed the care into the hospitals that produced, even, the supplanting of the ancient nurse feminine work, exercised in the women's hospitals, for medical instructors in medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Hospital of the Five Wounds of the city of Seville was found to attend the poor patients and because of the separation of sexes was created a women’s infirmary to take care to those women. The “mothers” and “daughters” worked in the called women’s enclosure of the Hospital of the Five Wounds during more that three centuries. In this manner, this article studies about the treatment that was given to the feminine infirmaries of this hospital as if they were monasteries, completely separated from the rest of the hospital and with access restricted to the religious and laymen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]