Hospitals In All 4 Eras And Prevention In 18-19th Century Flashcards
MEDIEVAL HOSPITALS
- relatively few hospitals; the sick were treated at home by family, mainly women
- run by monasteries, popular/ highly regarded
- hospitals didn’t cure people, but cared for them instead
- basic treatments were provided and monks had books on how to make herbal remedies
RENAISSANCE HOSPITALS:
- they were for the sick and “deserving poor”
- people would have to work/ not be treated
- St Bartholomew’s in London became a centre of innovation and research
- St Mary Of Bethlehem was the first “lunatic” hospital
18-19th CENTURY HOSPITALS:
- people were less “laissez-faire”, and were much more open to science and rationality
- vaccinations were promoted to prevent disease
- public health acts created
- miasma was still believed in (18th) until the Germ Theory discovery in the late 19th Century
MODERN ERA HOSPITALS:
1931 - electron microscopes were invented to see bacteria
1909 - magic bullets invented to target pneumonia and scarlet fever
1948 - NHS founded - 600,00 joined and 92% turned to doctors; waiting line of 8 million as many had never seen a doctor
1700-1900 PREVENTIONS:
- vaccinations promoted, and prevented illness
- Germ Theory linked bacteria to causing illness; which was then preventable (1861)
1796 - Jenner smeared cowpox pus on a boy’s cut, meaning he was then immune to smallpox. This created the smallpox vaccine which was compulsory for babies from 1853 onwards
Nightingale - She separated patients, clean air circulation; making hospital death rates decrease from 40% to 20% in the Crimean War
where were the sick treated and by who specifically?
(MEDIEVAL)
most sick people were treated at home, and mainly by women
who were hospitals run by?
(MEDIEVAL)
monasteries ran the hospitals, and they were popular and highly regarded
what was provided in these hospitals?
(MEDIEVAL)
basic treatments were given; along with herbal remedies which were made by monks who had books about them
who were the hospitals for?
(RENAISSANCE)
they were mainly for the sick and also the “deserving poor”
what would happen in the hospitals?
(RENAISSANCE)
instead of being treated, people would have to work
what did St Bartholomew’s in London become?
(RENAISSANCE)
it became a centre of innovation and research
what did St Mary of Bethlehem’s hospital do?
(RENAISSANCE)
it became the first ‘lunatic’ hospital - in modern day this would be a place where you would be helped with mental illnesses
what did people become?
(18-19th CENTURY HOSPITALS)
people were much less ‘laissez-faire’, and were much more open to science and rationality
what two things were promoted to prevent disease?
(18-19th CENTURY HOSPITALS)
vaccinations and public health acts were promoted to try and help prevent diseases within big areas such as cities
