How did patients treated in medieval hospital?

Answer 1

there were no hospitals in medieval times. medicine as we know it did not come about until much later. during the dark ages many people thought that disease and sickness was brought about by evil spirits or angry gods.

Answer 2

Yes. The Hotel-Dieu of Paris is a very famous example. It was founded in 652AD by St. Landry, the Bishop of Paris. In the UK, Bath and York (St. Peter, later St. Leonard) are notable sites of famous hospitals. Hospitals were usually attached to some form of religious house, either a monastery or a convent, and often took their names from a patron saint relating to medicine or healing.

The most famous hospital was the hospital in Jerusalem run by the Order of St John of Jerusalem. It could hold 2000 patients and had 8 physicians (a good ratio in those days) and mainly treated pilgrims coming to Jerusalem

Answer 3

Medieval hospitals were not places where sick people were treated. The word hospital (often shortened to spital) comes from Latin hospitium meaning guest accommodation or lodgings, so a hospital was a medieval guest house, often for travelling merchants, pilgrims and others who needed safe overnight hospitality.

Every monastery had a hospital where travellers could stay for a night or two - they would be given a bed, good food and somewhere to pray, since it was considered part of the package. No money changed hands.

In some towns hospitals were also established for very poor pilgrims who were visiting shrines (such as that of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury). These were very simple buildings where people slept on piles of straw on the floor, where they might be given food and an opportunity to pray in a small chapel in the same building.

The "Poor Pilgrim's Hospital" in Canterbury still exists today as a kind of museum; it was originally built and run in the 12th century by a wealthy local businessman who was permitted to enforce a toll-gate in the road outside - he charged a small fee for most people to pass and this paid for the hospital and its guests, who had no money themselves.

A medieval place for treating the sick was called an infirmary and these only existed within monastery sites.

Answer 4

Medieval hospitals were not places for treating the sick - they were called infirmaries.

A hospital was essentially a guest-house (from the Latin hospitium, hospitality or guest accommodation). They covered a wide range of different types: monastic hospitals which offered short periods of free accommodation for travellers, with food, a bed and a chapel for offering prayers; leper hospitals where the unfortunate victims could live together, pray and receive donations from well-wishers; pilgrim hospitals where very primitive sleeping arrangements were often found (piles of straw on a stone floor), but food was provided and the pilgrims had access to a chapel.

Leper hospitals were always just outside the walls of a town, since lepers were not permitted to mix with ordinary folk, but always on a main road so that passers-by might leave donations of food or money. At the leper hospital on the northern outskirts of Newport in Essex, a large stone with a hollowed-out top still stands near the boundary of the site, where medieval travellers could leave a few coins to be collected later by the staff.

Answer 5

basically patients were treated generally with herbal remedies, they did not rely much on expensive drugs