HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Royal Infirmary Of Edinburgh, Miasma Theory, Public Hospital
16 Oct 2018
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Surgery became associated with a hospital over the 19th century. The people in the hospitals were praying or the founders/for the souls of the founders. Medieval hospital was a shared religious space (shared by inmates) Wards in the hospital had an alter at one end or they were somehow connected to a church. When mass was celebrated, all of the patients could see what was happening. Inmates who were well enough were expected to help out as nurses (communitarian model) Patients = not only sick people, were also people who had no other place to go. Depends on what kind of hospital we are talking about, variations between hospitals (old people) and different regions. In the renaissance the hospitals were founded by the new commercial class. More prominent in areas with commerce and trade such as. If employers had no more jobs for workers, the workers were sent to the hospitals.
