Medicine through Time: Organisations

Question 1

What impact did hospitals have on medicine?

Answer 1

• While earlier hospitals focused on caring for the sick, the Renaissance saw a shift towards treating illness and disease.
• Hospitals began employing physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, leading to more specialized and professional medical care

Question 2

What impact did monasteries have on medicine?

Answer 2

• They acted as centers for care, learning, and preservation of knowledge, particularly before the establishment of universities
• they provided care and hospitality to the sick, the poor and travelers

Question 3

What was the Royal Society and what impact did it have on medicine?

Answer 3

• The Royal Society encouraged scientists to question traditional beliefs and rely on evidence gathered through observation and experimentation
• The society’s philosophical transactions book help spread new theories across England and Europe
• The Society provided training and mentorship for up and coming physicians
• 1660