Under the coordination of Üsküdar Üniversitesi Directorate of Health, Culture, and Sports, the Nursing Club of the Faculty of Health Sciences conducted a cultural trip to the Edirne Sultan Bayezid II Complex Health Museum. The Head of the Nursing Department Prof. Dr. Selma Doğan, Vice Head Prof. Dr. Nurcan Uysal, department academicians, and many students participated in the organized trip.
Information was acquired about past healthcare services…
Nursing department students showed great interest in the museum, where applications in the field of health from the 15th century were animated.
Within the scope of the trip, students gained important information about medical education and healthcare services provided in the past.
Following the museum visit, important architectural structures of the city, which stand out with their historical texture, were also visited.
About the Edirne Sultan Bayezid II Complex Health Museum:
The complex, built by Sultan Bayezid II in Edirne in 1488 and one of the important structures of the Ottoman Period, consists of numerous units such as a 30-bed Darüşşifa (hospital), a medical madrasa, a mosque, a guesthouse, an imaret (almshouse), and a bathhouse.
Healthcare services were provided in many fields at the Darüşşifa, including psychiatry, plastic surgery, ear-nose-throat surgery, women's diseases, eye diseases, and infectious diseases.
The most significant feature of the Darüşşifa is that, in addition to medical practices in treatment, music, water sounds, aromatherapy, and occupational therapy were used, especially in the treatment of psychiatric patients. Important documents describing the medical books taught in the medical madrasa and health practices have survived to the present day and are preserved in the Selimiye Manuscript Works Library.
