hospitals

• continuity in apothecaries, surgeons and physicians:

  • apothecaries would still mix remedies and surgeons still carried out simple remedies
  • surgeons and apothecaries continued to provide services for those who could not afford physicians
  • physicians continued to be trained at universities - most learning was still done from books and not practical work
  • lectures for physicians were dictacted in Latin
  • practical training was still not popular because it was difficult to gain corspes to dissect
  • very few universities provided training on anatoy because they thought it was not neccessary
• change in apothecaries, surgeons and physicians:

  • education for apothecaries and surgeons increased
  • new wounds from war meant more surgery was neccessary
  • surgeons and apothecaries needed licenses to practice their work
  • iatrochemistry and anatomy had started to be introduced into the medical curriculum
  • shared ideas on iatrochemistry and anatomy inspired doctors to challenge old teachings
  • observing patients became more popular
  • printing press allowed trainee doctors to have better varied access to medical books
  • fugitive sheets (individual copies of medical pictures) were available
• hospitals would provide:

  • medication - many hospitals had their own pharmacy and apothecary
  • good diet - restorative foods
  • visits from physicians - would observe symptoms and prescribe treatments
• • treatment had evolved since the medieval period as treatment was no longer based on religion
  • in the medieval period, God causing and curing disease was a central idea
• dissolution of monasteries and hospital care:

  • the dissolution of monasteries by Henry VIII led to the closing of most hospitals because majority of hospitals were connected to churches
  • hsopital care managed to continue after the dissolution of monasteries because small hospitals opened
  • these hospitals were funded by charities, but there was a big change in the amount of medical treatment provided by hospitals
  • many hospitals reopened without backing of the Church but not to standard of what they had once been
  • the loss of hospitals led to decrease in hospital care and medical treatment
• pest houses:

  • pest houses were important in the Renaissance period because they took in only people suffering from plague or pox
  • this is because traditional hospitals would not admit people who were contagious
  • this is because there was an understanding that disease could be spread from person to person
  • so people who were suffering from infectious diseases needed a place to go
• • community care was family care, mainly women, giving medical advice and herbal remedies
  • this type of care was still popualr because they were cheaper than going to a licensed physician or apothecary