Medieval Medicine-practice exam questions and answers

Practice Exam Quesions and Answers - 

'Hospital treatment in England in the period from 1250 to 1500 was very rare' - How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer.

You may use the following in your answer:

• Charity Hosptials
• Care in the Home

you must use information of your own (16 marks)

{introduction}To judge whether hospital treatment was rare depends on what we mean by "treatment" and the extent to which it was recived. Treatment such as surgery was rare but general care in hospitals was becoming more and more common.

{1st paragraph-agrees with statement} In many ways, treatment in hospitals was still rare in the Middle Ages thanks to the church. About 30% of hospitals were owned by the church and run by monks and nuns that lived in the nearby monestries. They created a safe space for ill people to recover, keeping the hospital clean and praying for, and with, patients for recovery. This was great as they clean, hygenic enviorment of the hospitals meant that people tended to recover quickly. Unfortunately, due to religous beliefs monks and nuns werent allowed to perform any kind…