How did hospitals change during the 18th century

• Started to cure patients as well as care for them
• Doctors were trained at hospitals
• Poor people still got free treatment
• Treatment was still based on the four humors
• Specialist mental, maternity and children’s hospitals set up
• Foundling hospital gave orphans a clean environment to live in
• Contagious patients weren’t admitted
• Home treatments were preferred
• Christian’s said faith was expressed by doing good deeds
• Abandoned idea that illness was a punishment for sin
• Started debating about mental diseases
• New hospitals set up with funding from philanthropists and businesses
• Doctors income came from wealthy patients
• 5 new general hospitals were added to London and 9 more throughout the country