In colonial times women provided health care for their families and neighbors. Doctors were often not __1__ , 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 __2__ babies. Women also provided __3__ medical services in the wars that our country was involved in. Women cared for wound soldiers in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Their wartime work was the real beginning of modern nursing practices. Doctors became more __4__ of the work done by nurses after seeing the skill that they used to treat the wounded soldiers. Training for nurses became more __5__ available after the Civil War. By the middle of the 1800s, hospitals were being built to __6__ the sick and injured. The American Medical Association was also formed to __7__ medical care. Medical schools trained doctors in modem medical practices. As hospitals became more widespread, the role of women in medicine __8__ 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 __9__ . Now many people preferred to be treated by a __10__ doctor in a hospital. A. valuable B. currently C. delivering D. treat E. readily F. reduced G. cure H. regulate I. male J. available K. female L. schooling M. accepting N. approachable O. declined