Early Modern Medicine Flashcards
what traditonal beifes and causes of disease
the theroy of the 4 humours continues (bleeding/purging)
herbal remidies (honey nettles herbs ect)
God punishing people
pary cures
witches curse
the cycle of the planets has an impact on your health - new scrofula disease called king’s evil cure by thouch of the king or bezoar stone from persion goat that cured all poisons
what was the complete herbal
a book written by Nicholus culpepper
who sopke to people to diagnose illness (this new modern at the time) he also classified herbs for specific illnesses
what did improved travel allow for in terms of cures
new vegtables and herbs brought in from aboard and hailed as wonder drugs eg rhubarb from aisa to clear the bowles
opium as a pain killer from china and turkery
tabacco as a cure all the was especially good for the lungs toothache and poisened wounds
bark from chinchona tree from south america to treat fevers
what did the printing press allow for?
wider spread of medical infromation and herbals meaning more people could accsess cure cures and theories( although many still could not read) it also allowed the invention of ‘herbals’
what did pare improve and invent
the made and improved specalised limbs- over 50 kinds for soilders who had lost limbs in war.
He invented a new kind of sealing bullet wounds by using egg rose oil and turpentine
used ligatures to tie off wounds instead of cauterisation
what was laudenum
new painkiller made of opium and alcohol
What was incoculation
An early form of vaccination where the skin is scratched with a mild dose of the disease so they became immune
It was very popular in medical china
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was a famous adaptor of incoculation when she had her children innoculated in 1721
It was very profitable and people like William Woodville became wealthy and famous from it
How did Jenner discover the small pox vaccination
Observed how milk madis who caught cow pox never seemed to catch small pox. To test this theory he gave cow pox (by giving pus from a pox to spot) to James Phipps he caught cox pox but when Jenner tried to give him small pox h e didnt catch it he then tired this in more people including his son on the advice of the royal society
