Faculty of Medicine - University of Granada

The city of Granada, of primitive Iberian and Roman origins, reached its first splendor between the 13th and 15th centuries when it was configured as the capital of the Nasrid Kingdom. Under the protection of the same the Alhambra is developed and since 1349 the Madraza, a higher education center located next to the Alcaicería, the Silk Market. This center brought together in that period the most notable sages of the time. Among them, Ibn-al-jatib stands out as a doctor who studied the plague epidemic that devastated Granada in the mid-14th century, defending the contagion theory and pointing out some of the objects that served as a vehicle for the transmission of the disease. At that time Granada had the Maristan, an Islamic hospital, located in the Albaicin next to the Darro, exceeded in the organization, according to Ibn-al-jatib himself, the Mansuri hospital in Cairo. In their days there are only some remains of said hospital. The lions existing today in the Partal gardens in the Alhambra come from the said Islamic hospital.