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últimos auxilios

English translation: last rites and sacraments


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Spanish term or phrase:últimos auxilios
English translation:last rites and sacraments
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15:24 Oct 27, 2011
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Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care
Spanish term or phrase: últimos auxilios
This is actually from a text on the history of medicine:

El hospital que existía en Europa desde la Edad Media, según palabras del filósofo francés Michel Foucault, no estaba pensado para curar sino para asistir a los pobres en los momentos finales de su vida. Bajo la administración de las órdenes religiosas, esta instituación estaba al servicio de la salvación de las almas: era el sitio donde el moribundo recibía sus últimos auxilios y sacramentos.

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Wendy Gosselin
Local time: 04:51
last rites and sacraments
Explanation:
There was no care provided. People went there to die. They were known as "mouroirs".The only care was at best spiritual.
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jmleger
Local time: 02:51
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last rites and sacraments


Explanation:
There was no care provided. People went there to die. They were known as "mouroirs".The only care was at best spiritual.

jmleger
Local time: 02:51
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Emma Goldsmith: Yes. In fact it is usually referred to "últimos auxilios espirituales".
3 mins
  -> Gee, I think I have a future a a Spanish translator! eh eh
agree  fvasconcellos: Of course! Plenty of references for "últimos auxilios espirituales".
4 mins
  -> Thx!
agree  liz askew: Indeed, especially in relation to this specific context.
15 mins
  -> Thx!
agree  Lucy Breen: I agree - "last rites" it is.
23 mins
  -> Thx!
agree  xxxFVS: On reflection I agree. Will hide my answer.
54 mins
  -> Vade in pace ;-)
agree  Benjamin A Flores
1 hr
  -> Thx!
agree  Jenni Lukac
3 hrs
agree  Elda Munguia
5 hrs
agree  franglish
15 hrs
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