Renaissance - Continuity + Changes in prevention, treatment + care Flashcards
1
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What were the changes of the types of patients in hospitals?
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- by 1500, hospitals treated more sick + wounded people - and used less by travellers and pilgrims
2
Q
What caused most hospitals to close and when?
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1536 - dissolution of the monasteries in England by Henry VIII
- hospitals often attached to monasteries + convents –> nuns + monks who administered medical care
3
Q
What was the result of the dissolution of hospitals in 1536?
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- some free, charity-funded hospitals set up - but wasn’t until well into the 1700s that the number of hospitals returned to pre-dissolution levels
- more pest houses appears - place of care for serious contagious diseases without affecting family
4
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What was different when hospitals did re-appear?
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ran by physicians who focused on treating the sick rather than by religion
5
Q
Give 5 continuing treatments and preventions.
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- Traditional herbal remedies
- Bleeding and purging
- Cleanliness
- Superstitions and prayer
- Healthy living
6
Q
What was community care?
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- most people who became ill were cared at home, usually by a female relative
7
Q
Why was community care still very prevalent?
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- local communities very close –> plenty of people to give advice + mix remedies
- physicians still too expensive for majority
8
Q
Give 2 changes of prevention.
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- more emphasis on removing miasma through draining swamps + removing sewage + rubbish
- people regularly changed clothe to keep clean rather than just bathing
9
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Give 3 changes in treatment.
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- new Herbal remedies from newly discovered countries appeared in England
- theory of transference : people tried to rub objects on themselves to transfer the disease to the object
- alchemy caused **chemical cures (iatrochemistry) - very popular in 17th century –> metals + mineral cures popular
10
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Why was there still a lack of change during the Renaissance?
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- Ideas were **slow to be accepted and had no direct use in improving treatment or preventing disease. Discoveries did not improve understanding about the cause of disease.
