Author | Lengyan author team - Li Congjia
The Knights Hospitaller, one of the three major orders, participated in most of the wars of the Crusades, like the Knights Templar, and escaped when the Knights Templar was liquidated by European countries in the early 14th century. In addition to being human, the Knights Hospitaller also has an ability that Western kings recognize, that is, to play jihad without anyone.
Like the name of the Knights Hospitaller, the Knights Hospitaller was originally a super wet nurse group of the Crusades, which was founded to provide medical care to pilgrims to the East, and then developed into the protection of pilgrims and participation in the Holy Land War. The medical care of the Knights Hospitaller, especially the field medical technology, was unique in the Western world at that time, and in order to treat the disease, they even absorbed many Muslim doctors, and even specialized gynecologists to deliver babies, and even the rough knights of the Knights sometimes had to serve as infant nurses (so the Knights Hospitaller did not restrict the members of the Knights from holding children). Even the crusader enemies admitted that they were very good at medicine, and Saladin deliberately kept its hospital after conquering Jerusalem. The Knights Hospitaller also had special hospitals in many large cities in the West (such as Messina in Sicily, one of the five largest cities in medieval Europe and a must for pilgrims to the East) and made a prominent contribution to the promotion of medical technology.
Compared with the Knights Hospitaller, who were good at killing and saving people, the battlefield medical treatment of european medieval armies can only be described as a whiteboard, until the end of the Middle Ages, the Battle of Greinada, Queen Isabella also established the first field hospital in Europe. The previous PK war medical treatment in Europe was almost entirely solved by the nobles themselves, and the most local king could bring a few doctors to treat the nobles and knights he valued, such as Edward long-legged during his expedition to Scotland with an internal physician, a surgeon and two doctor assistants and two doctor servants, these king's doctors had special robes to represent their status, and the idle nobles could not summon them. Soldiers and even ordinary knights who were injured either ran to the nearest monastery for help, or saw if their wives' first aid skills could pass (the hostess of the knight's family had to learn some first aid methods, so the pope also tacitly acquiesced to women in the holy war, and when the long-legged Edward Crusade was assassinated, he also relied on his wife's first aid skills to survive), and the average person rarely accepted the king's doctor "egg yolk and boiled nettle", boiling elderberry oil (to deal with sword wounds), soldering iron wounds (disinfection after severed limbs), large axes and other medical means.
Even if these soldiers were lucky enough to run to town, they would be disappointed to find that monasteries and hospitals (most of which were the property of monasteries in the Middle Ages) were largely untreated for their wounds. In England, for example, there were more than 1,000 hospitals in medieval Britain, of which more than 300 were hospitals dedicated to leprosy patients, and more than 500 were relief hospitals for the poor (such hospitals were generally funded by guilds, or gifts from the people, accepting the poor to work in them, and by the way giving end-of-life services), and 136 were dedicated to pilgrims and pilgrims. Of hospitals, and finally more than 100 hospitals that can take in ordinary patients. Whether these more than 100 hospitals have doctors who can treat war wounds is not certain, and what is even more infuriating is that they not only do not treat cats, but even the living people have to look at their mood.
The hospital industry of the Knights Hospitaller has been open for hundreds of years, has treated countless knights who participated in jihad, has rich experience in battlefield treatment, and can also participate in jihad while saving people, and it has participated in major wars such as Lepanto, the expedition to Algiers, and the Cretan War, although the battlefield power is long gone, but the medical service is still top-notch. The kings of the Western countries are hungry for its wealth, but they are not surnamed Du, and they know that this group that has mastered the core technology of medical treatment cannot be moved.
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