Home Healthcare
This was where most Americans received medical care.
Answer: What is the home?
Doctors usually traveled to their patients using these two forms of transportation.
Answer: What are horseback and carriage?
These healthcare workers commonly delivered babies.
Answer: Who are midwives?
$100: People did not yet understand these two causes of disease.
Answer: What are germs and bacteria?
$100: True or False: Most Americans went to large hospitals when they became sick.
Answer: What is False?
These people usually cared for sick relatives at home.
Answer: Who are family members?
This treatment involved intentionally removing blood from a patient.
Answer: What is bloodletting?
Besides delivering babies, midwives cared for these people before and after childbirth.
Answer: Who are mothers?
Name two diseases mentioned in the passage
Answer: Any two of smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, and yellow fever.
True or False: Medical care was mainly provided in universities.
Answer: What is False?
Name two things family members did to care for sick relatives.
Answer: What are preparing food, helping patients rest, and/or using home remedies? Any two.
Besides bloodletting, doctors commonly used this type of medicine.
Answer: What is herbal medicine?
Native American communities used these three natural resources in medicine.
Answer: What are plants, roots, and natural medicines?
Why did many diseases spread quickly?
Answer: What is people did not understand germs or bacteria?
Explain why families played such an important role in healthcare.
Answer: What is most medical care happened at home, so families prepared food, helped patients rest, and provided home remedies?
Name two types of home remedies mentioned in the passage.
Answer: What are herbs, teas, poultices, or other natural treatments? Any two.
Why were doctors unable to cure many diseases?
Answer: What is medical knowledge was limited?
Who later studied some Native American medical knowledge?
Answer: Who are physicians?
Doctors learned about this important theory later in the 1800s.
Answer: What is germ theory?
Compare the roles of midwives and doctors.
Answer: Midwives delivered babies and cared for mothers, while doctors traveled to patients and treated illnesses using the medical methods available at the time.
Give two reasons hospitals were uncommon for most Americans.
Answer: What are most medical care happened at home, and hospitals were rare and often associated with poor people or people without family care?
Explain one major difference between medical care then and medical care today, based on the passage.
Answer: Answers may include: Doctors traveled to patients’ homes; medical knowledge was limited; germ theory was unknown; or treatments such as bloodletting were used.
Name the three main sources of care communities relied on because medicine was limited.
Answer: What are family care, experienced healers, and local physicians?
Name all four diseases listed in the passage.
Answer: What are smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, and yellow fever?
Daily Double: You are living in America in 1820. Describe how you might receive care if you became seriously ill. Your answer must include where you receive care, who might help you, and one possible treatment.
Answer: Example: I would probably receive care at home. My family, an experienced healer, or a local doctor might care for me. Treatment might include herbal medicine, home remedies, or bloodletting.