The Charlottenschrank. Born Out of a Nursing Shortage

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25974/enhe2021-11en

Keywords:

19th Century, 20th Century, Community nursing, Hygiene, Material Culture, Nursing Shortage

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.

Published

2022-01-20