Care and treatment

• What changed in the training of physicians?

  It took a more scientific approach, encouraging experimentation and observation. Doctors could now dissect and learn using new technology like microscopes.
• What did rich people continue to do from the medieval era?

  Pay for a doctor or nurse to take care of them at home
• What did most people continue to do from the medieval era?


  Use herbal remedies provided by apothecaries
• Who were hospitals now funded by?

  Charity and physicians
• Why were hospitals now funded by physicians and charities?

  Hospitals were attached to monasteries and convents which got closed because of the Reformation
• Treatment of illness

  There was very little change in treatments in the Renaissance from the medieval era:

  • Bloodletting and purging
  • Herbal remedies
  • Superstition and religious beliefs