[HIST 249] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 76 pages long Study Guide!
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Final exam is take-home due by dec 15th. ~500bc - ~1700ce was all western traditional medicine, including scholars such as hippocrates, Egyptian medicine etc is not part of western medical tradition. By the late 19th century, people were concerned about wood in hospitals so the most modern institutions started putting tiles on the ground because tiles won"t absorb anything. Around this time people became concerned about germs and sanitation. Diphtheria: outbreaks of disease would cause children to suffocate to death. There"s one nurse in the painting, which could be historically inaccurate because there were many female students in medical schools in paris. When there"s an image of modern medicine the woman is the nurse. Focus on the doctor in the centre, sort of religious aspect with the doctor in the centre curing the child. The icon of the hospital in 1907. Medieval medicine was primitive and administered by clergymen and religion. Hospitals used to be a place for the homeless.
