In connection with the monastery there was a bath, capable of containing
six persons, in which the monks were required to bathe twice a month,
except during Lent, when the bath was used only in cases of illness.

The home for old men supported by the House accommodated twenty-four
persons, providing them with bread, wine, oil, cheese, fuel, medical
attendance, and small gifts of money.

The hospital had fifty beds for the poor. It was divided into five
wards: a ward of ten beds for surgical cases; another, of eight beds,
for grave cases; a third, of ten beds, for less serious complaints; the
fourth ward had twelve beds for women; the fifth contained ten beds for
what seemed light cases. Each ward was in charge of two physicians,
three medical assistants, and four servitors. A lady physician, six lady
medical assistants, and two female nurses, took charge of the female
patients. The sick were visited daily by a house doctor, who inquired
whether they were satisfied with their treatment, examined their diet,
and saw to the cleanliness of the beds. The ordinary diet consisted of
bread, beans, onions, oil, and wine.[407] Throughout their history the
monasteries of Constantinople remembered the poor. (See Plate III.)

[Illustration: FIG. 77.]

[Illustration: FIGS. 78 AND 79.]

[Illustration: FIG. 80.]

[Illustration: PLATE LXIX.
S. SAVIOUR PANTOKRATOR. THE EAST END, FROM THE SOUTH.]

[Illustration: S. SAVIOUR PANTOKRATOR. THE EAST WINDOW OF THE CENTRAL
CHURCH.]

[Illustration: S. SAVIOUR PANTOKRATOR. THE EAST END, FROM THE NORTH.
_To face page 242._]

[358] _De top. C.P._ iv. c. 2, p. 283, 'in supercilio quarti collis
vergente ad solis ortum visitur templum Pantocratoris, illustre
memoria recentium scriptorum.'

[359] _Tagebuch_, p. 157.

[360] _Itin. russes_, pp. 105, 233-34.

[361] Du Cange, _Const. Christ._ iv. p. 81; _Itin. russes_, pp. 123,
203-4.

[362] Synax., August 13; Cinnamus, p. 9; Phrantzes, p. 210.

[363] Du Cange, _C.P. Christ._ iv. p. 81, quoting Anselm, bishop of
Havelsberg, who was in Constantinople as the ambassador of Lothair the
Great to the Emperor John in 1145.

[364] MS. No. 85, in the Library of the Theological Seminary at Halki.

[365] Synax., 13th August.

[366] Pp. 66, 151.

[367] MS. No. 85, in the Library of the Theological Seminary at Halki.

[368] Vol. i. p. 555.

[369] _Ancient and Modern C.P._ p. 69.

[370] Cinnamus, p. 14; Guntherus Parisi