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In colonial times women provided health care for their families and neighbors. Doctors were often not (47) , and at that time they had not learned to cure many of the illnesses that we often go to a doctor for today. So women usually cared for the sick in their homes. Women did the work of both nurses and midwives, caring for people when they were sick and (48) babies.
Women also provided (49) medical services in the wars that our country was involved in. Women cared for wounded soldiers in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Their (50) work was the real beginning of modern nursing practices. Doctors became more (51) of the work done by nurses after seeing the skill that they used to treat the wounded soldiers. Training for nurses became more (52) available after the Civil War.
By the middle of the 1800’s, hospitals were being built to treat the sick and injured. The American Medical Association was also formed to (53) medical care. Medical schools trained doctors in modern medical practices. As hospitals became more widespread, the role of women in medicine (54) for a while. At first medical schools were only for men, and people began to look down on female nurses and midwives who did not have medical (55) . Now many people preferred to be treated by a (56) doctor in a hospital.
A) valuable F) wartime K) female
B) deliberately G) control L) schooling
C) delivering H) regulate M) accepting
D) reception I) male N) inclined
E) readily J) available O) declined