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Franciscans who got sick went to Havana or the SA convent on sick leave
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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Health care was an ad hoc allotment. The doctrinero who fell ill did not enter a hospital, that place of last resort for the deserving indigent. He went to Havana on sick leave, or else he was given a cell, a bed, and medicines in the convent at St. Augustine (Franciscans, 1735). There were women in the city who treated the sick with time-honored folk remedies drawn from the Spanish, Indian, and no doubt African traditions. [Note: For Father Alonso de Leturiondo's list of Florida's herbal specifics, see Leturiondo, 1700]. Although friars were not supposed to enter "houses of women," even for healing, in St. Augustine they sometimes did (Leturiondo, 1690; Consejo de Indias, 1695a). (Bushnell SS)
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