hospitals

• By 1500, treating more sick people and being used less by travellers and pilgrims. Most had their own apothecary to mix medicines and physicians frequently visited patients.
• In 1536, dissolution of the monasteries in England by Henry VIII caused most hospitals to close.

  Some free, charity-funded hospitals were set up but until well into the 1700s the number of hospitals returned to pre-dissolution levels.
• More pest houses began to appear,

  people suffering from a particular contagious disease could go for care.
• When hospitals did re-appear, run by physicians focused on treating the sick rather than by religion.