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Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra�ov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009 • Series VI
doctors and scientists were brought up (6).
Süleymaniye Dar’us Sifa which was built
in 1577 had served in a different
construction with the madrasah for the first
time. Endowments were assigned for each
dar’us sifa in Ottomans in order to provide
their needs. Besides, according to the
sources, helps were made by the
endowment in the social complex where
the dar’us sifa took place. In the
Süleymaniye social complex endowment
and records, the services, servants and
helps given to the dar’us sifa were also
listed. In the researches of S. Ünver, as the
social complex’s endowment was
determined in 1557, the administrative
records about the guesthouse, medicine
madrasah and dar’us sifa authenticate that
the hospital was serving in that date (7).
According to its endowment, the medicine
madrasah’s professor had to be wise
enough to be palace doctor. In the dar’us
sifa where various illnesses had been
treated, just the mental patients started to
be treated after 1843 (8). It is indicated in
the records that the poor patient were
boarding in the hospital, polyclinic service
was also given and doctors were working
from morning hours to afternoon in the
hospital (9). When Guraba Hospital was
built by Bezm-i Alem Valide Sultan in
1845, male patients were transferred from
various hospitals to this hospital and male
mental patients were sent to Süleymaniye
Dar’us Sifa. Male patients were accepted
while serving for quarantina in the colera
outbreak of 1865 (10). Different from the
other samples of the period there was a
neurology service in the dar’us sifa. The
method of curing with music which was
used in Edirne dar’us sifa was applied to
the mental patients treated in the neurology
service, the medicine compositions
prepared in the darülakakir on the opposite
were distributed not only to the patients
here but also to all of the hospitals and
patients in �stanbul. In the beginning of the
20 th century, Dar’us sifa construction
served for military printery till 1927 (11).
According to Peçevi, Tabip Ahmed Çelebi
was the first one assigned here and
Mustafa Bin Celâlüttevkii was chief
physician in 1567 in the period of
Suleiman the Magnificent. The chief
physician between the years 1858-1873
was the famous Italian doctor Louis
Mongeri (12).
The location of the constructions in
Süleymaniye social complex and
architecture of the dar’us sifa:
Apart from the Süleymaniye Dar’us
Sifa which was built by Architect Sinan on
behalf of Suleiman the Magnificent
between the years 1550-1557, there were
darulhadis, bath, darülkurra, rabi and salis
madrasahs on the south-east, Architect
Sinan’s tomb on the north, sani and evvel
madrasahs, medicine madrasah, dar’us
sifa, darüzziyafe, darülakakir (pharmacy),
library, fountain, guesthouse and Tiryakiler
Bazaar (Bazaar of addicts), caravansary,
ottoman elementary-primary school and
lieutenant cabins on the south-west (the
mosque regarded as the center of the social
complex)(fig.2).
Fig.2. Medicine Madrasah and Tiryakiler
Bazaar
Süleymaniye social complex, located
prevailing to the city, was constructed in
the land in which the old palace built by
Conqueror Sultan Mehmet had a fire and
destroyed (13). While the mosque forming
the center of the social complex was
located on a high hill, the madrasahs on its