2.2.1 Changing Methods of Treatment

Question 1

How fast were doctors progressions? (2)

Answer 1

• Doctors in the Renaissance period still didn’t have much training.
• They still used old methods that people like Harvey thought were ineffective but some began to use more modern techniques.

Question 2

What was the belief in ‘The Royal Touch’?

Answer 2

If the monarch touched you that you could be cured from scrofula

Question 3

Advances in approaches to medicine (3)

Answer 3

• Hospitals began to focus on treating patients, not just caring for them
• Lots of towns had pharmacies
• Books were being published which covered how to treat illnesses at home

Question 4

What is quackery?

Answer 4

A form of medicine based on spectacles and displays

Question 5

What was viewed as fraudulent medicine?

Answer 5

Quackery

Question 6

What did quacks claim about their medicine?

Answer 6

That it could cure everything

Question 7

What did quacks give to their patients in order to ‘heal’ them?

Answer 7

Depressants like opium, which gave patients the impression that they were getting better when in reality, they were giving their patients an addiction.

Question 8

Who was Thomas Sydenham?

Answer 8

Thomas Sydenham was a British Physician who advanced the use of scientific process in medicine

Question 9

When was Thomas Sydenham born?

Answer 9

1624

Question 10

What did Thomas Sydenham prioritise and what did this allow him to do?

Answer 10

He recorded his observations of patients’ illnesses and treatments and this allowed him to see patterns between illnesses and treatments.

Question 11

What did Sydenham use his records and the patterns he spotted to do?

Answer 11

Sort diseases into different types based on which symptoms a patient had.

Question 12

When and what was the title of Thomas Sydenham’s book?

Answer 12

“Medical Observations” in 1676

Question 13

For how many years was “Medial Observations” used by doctors?

Answer 13

200