1500-1700 Renaissance [Scientific Approach:Ideas]

Question 1

Why was there a Change in ideas of cause of disease within the Renaissance?

Answer 1

Various new rational ideas were suggested. As well as the decline of the churches power

Question 2

What was a continuity with disease in the renaissance?

Answer 2

Miasma (and the 4 humours but by 1700 very few physicians believed it)

Question 3

How was there a changing influence of the church?

Answer 3

Religious ideas were challenged more.

Question 4

Who was responsible for a change in work of physicians and scientists ?

Answer 4

Thomas Sydenham

Question 5

What would fewer people believe in which caused the work of physicians to change?

Answer 5

Astrology (let to the usage of astrology charts to be stopped)

Question 6

Who was Thomas Sydenham?

Answer 6

London Doctor who worked during 1660s and 70s

Question 7

Who wrote Observations Medicare and when?

Answer 7

Thomas Sydenham 1676

Question 8

What did Thomas Sydenham believe?

Answer 8

Not to rely on medial books in diagnosis- and instead to observe the patient and record symptom in detail

(He based treatment on the disease as a whole and didn’t treat individual symptoms)

Question 9

What was the nickname given to Thomas Sydenham?

Answer 9

“English hypocrites”