10% actually tried to cure the sick
The kind of treatements given included food, rest, prayer, nursing care from nuns and herbal remedies
Hospitals were funded by the church and acted like care homes, it was believed God sent illness as punishment.
Had no professional doctors or surgeons
Often people with apparently incurable or infectious diseases were denied entry
Hospitals were mainly for the poor as the rich were treated in their own homes by physicians
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