Hopsitals over time

Question 1

medieval hopsitals (1250-500)

Answer 1

• 30% hopsitals controlled by church
• Only for rest and recovery
• Shared beds
• Only treatment was prayer
• Rejected the infected, pregnant, and mentally ill.
• Ran by the holy people

Question 2

Renaissance (1500-1700)

Answer 2

• good diet, hygiene, herbs
• visit from physician.
• Dissolution of monasteries (1532-1536)
• Because of HenryVIII, 5 hospitals left.

Question 3

Industrial Revolution (1700-1900)

Answer 3

• Florence Nightingale and the pavillion plan.
• Before her, cramped and gross hospitals
• Chloroform and carbolic acid (for pain relief and infection.)
• Germ Theory

Question 4

Modern (1900-present.)

Answer 4

• NHS , 1948
• Focused on improving hospitals. Access to everyone, free healthcare.
• Seperate wards, specific treatments.