Early Hospitals During Pre-Industrial Europe
During pre-industrial Europe, the aforementioned statement was mostly true.The early hospitals were disgusting places where disease had seeped into ever facet. The would cram sick people in the same beds because they were overcrowded, they would use incorrect methods to attempt to heal such as bloodletting, and the hospitals were just generally overcrowded with too many people at a time which would not help stop the diseases but only spread them. Also the poorer people at the time ate a more natural diet while the upper class people generally ate more and were therefore out of shape and less healthy.If you were poor, there was less likely of a chance you would be sick and if you were, it would be better to just let it pass rather than going
to a hospital.Though, the biggest reason that this statement is that doctors simply did not know the best thing to do about most patients and they did not have the medical knowledge or equipment we have today.