"The hospital shall keep all patients, men and women, until they are completely recovered. All costs are to be borne by the hospital whether the people come from afar or near, whether they are residents or foreigners, strong or weak, low or high, rich or poor... 
...employed or unemployed, blind or sighted, physically or mentally ill, learned or illiterate. There are no conditions of consideration and payment; none is objected to or even indirectly hinted at for non-payment...
The entire service is through the magnificence of God, the generous one."
- from the waqf (endowment deed) for the Hospital of Sultan al-Nasir Qalawun, Cairo, 1285. The hospital continued to operate for over 400 years, until the 19th c. archnet.org/sites/1551
- from the waqf (endowment deed) for the Hospital of Sultan al-Nasir Qalawun, Cairo, 1285. The hospital continued to operate for over 400 years, until the 19th c. archnet.org/sites/1551
More details on the history of the Hospital of Qalawun can be found in Ahmad Raghab, The Medieval Islamic Hospital: cambridge.org/core/books/med…
And I just discovered the @NIH has a page on the history of Islamic hospitals! It should be WAY LONGER nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/isl…
The image is of Dioscorodes and a Student from a 13th c. Arabic copy of De Materia Medica - I believe this folio is in the collection of the New York Public Library? Would be grateful for help with the identification and I'll fix it on Wikipedia (from whence I pulled this image)!
The @metmuseum also has some folios: metmuseum.org/art/collection…
Two updates - @Yael_Rice, @elainevdalen, and @jsmorientalist provided the catalog information for this manuscript page, which is in the Library of Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul - thanks, all!
And medical historian @monicaMedHist let me know that Ahmed Ragheb's book was critiqued pretty heavily by other historians of science. Here's a review by Nahyan Fancy. If you'd like to read it but don't have access, let me know, happy to help. academia.edu/30929994/Essay…
