High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Science
1203
Jayavarman VII builds hospitals across Khmer Empire
1203
The Buddhist king of Angkor established a network of one hundred and two hospitals across his empire, each staffed with physicians and stocked with medicinal plants. Stone inscriptions at each site listed the staff and supplies. No medieval ruler, east or west, attempted public health on this scale, and the inscriptions survive as some of the most detailed medical records of the premodern world.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.