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