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Nursing History and Theory: Care before modern nursing · Care in the Ancient World

How ancient societies from Egypt and Greece to India, China, Rome and the Americas cared for the sick, and what that care got right.

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Nursing History and Theory · 24 questions

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1. Before hospitals existed, who provided most care for the sick in nearly every society?

  1. Paid physicians who visited homes
  2. Temple priests trained in healing
  3. Women of the family, at home
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Answer: Women of the family, at home

Across cultures, caring for the sick, the newborn and the dying was domestic work done mainly by mothers, daughters and other female relatives.

2. The English word 'nurse' traces back to a Latin verb. What did it mean?

  1. To bind and heal wounds
  2. To nourish or suckle
  3. To watch over at night
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Answer: To nourish or suckle

'Nurse' comes from Latin nutrire through nutrix, a wet nurse, which is why the word first meant feeding infants before it meant caring for the sick.

3. Babylon's Code of Hammurabi set fees and penalties for healers. What made a surgeon's fee higher or lower?

  1. The patient's social rank
  2. The healer's years of training
  3. The severity of the illness
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Answer: The patient's social rank

The code charged different sums for treating a free man, a commoner or an enslaved person, reflecting how law tied medical care to social class.

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