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The Charlottenschrank. Born Out of a Nursing Shortage

2022/01/27 by Krause, Heike
#19th Century #20th Century #Community nursing #Hygiene #Material Culture #Nursing Shortage

paper · doi:10.25974/enhe2021-11en

Abstract

Helping hands have always been in short supply, so in order to provide the late nineteenth-century rural population of southwest Germany with a minimum of medical utensils, a pastor came up with the idea of providing communities with a cabinet that became known as the Charlottenschrank.

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