Medicine - Medieval Medicine
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- Created on: 29-05-15 01:00
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Hospitals
- Hospitals cared for the sick rather than cured them
- Their main focus was religion, and many hospitals were run by religious orders
- Usually, people with infectious diseases or incurable conditions were not admitted
- Some hospitals were built for specific injectious disease (such as leper houses or lazars, which provided care and prevented infection spreading)
- 14th century - Almshouses for the "deserving" poor and elderly began to appear
Doctors
- Roman administration end - towns, wealth and numbers of doctors decreased
- Over time some monasteries became centres of learning, where formal medical training began
- It took 10 years to qualify and was very expensive
- 12th century - separate medical training had developed based on…
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