Unit 5: Patient Care: Early Modern (16th-16th Century)

Question 1

What was the English Reformation?

Answer 1

England’s break with Rome. Henry VIII made the Church of England.

Question 2

Endowed hospitals

Answer 2

These were voluntary hospitals (mainly for the wealthy) that were given land by Henry VIII.

Question 3

What did Henry VIII do to hospitals during the Reformation?

Answer 3

He shut down monastery hospitals.

Question 4

What did nursing sisters use to treat patients?

Answer 4

Herbal remedies

Question 5

What hospitals could the poor access?

Answer 5

Royal hospitals

Question 6

What was the role of barber surgeons?

Answer 6

Barber surgeons served to bleed patients and perform surgery in bad conditions. Barber surgeons were often not formally trained.

Question 7

Bonesetters were…

Answer 7

Lay practitioners of joint manipulation

Question 8

Bedlam hospital

Answer 8

A hospital concentrated on looking after the mentally insane (sanitarium) in 1547.

Question 9

Change

Answer 9

It was the first time the government got involved with patient care.

Question 10

Continuity

Answer 10

Barber surgeons, Apothecaries

Question 11

Help/hinder factors

Answer 11

(Hinder) Barber surgeons were not trained, hospitals had unsanitary conditions
(Help) The poor had access to care.