History (Renaissance Medicine) Flashcards
Key individuals in Renaissance medicine? [6]
William Harvey
Andreas Vesalius
Thomas Sydenham
Robert Hooke
A Leeuwenhoek
Ambroise Pare
What changed in Renaissance Medicine? [5]
1) Different herbal remedies
2) New diseases and treatments
3) Alchemy becomes chemistry
4) Transference
5) Education and Printing
What continued in Renaissance Medicine? [3]
1) The four humours
2) Herbal remedies
3) Supernatural and religion
What continued in the prevention of disease? [4]
1) Miasmata made hygiene standards better
2) Change of clothes and bed linen was more often
3) Belief that avoiding fatty foods, laziness and alcohol can prevent disease
4) Belief in astrology continued
What changed in the prevention of disease? [5]
1) Bathing became less popular after syphilis
2) People believed certain weather conditions caused disease
3) Barometers and thermometers were used to see if there was a link between weather and disease
4) People were fined if they did not clean the street outside their houses. 5)Removing sewage from the street was a job for minor criminals.
__________ is next to _________ ?
Cleanliness is next to Godliness
Where would diseases normally spread?
Stewes (Bathhouses in London)
Contributions and work of William Harvey?
Contributions and work of Robert Hooke?
Contributions and work of Thomas Sydenham?
Contributions of A Leeuwenhoek?
Contributions of Andreas Vesalius?
Reasons for the progress of medical knowledge from 1500 - 1700?
1) Humanism
2) Improved literacy
3) Ending old ideas
4) Renaissance period
5) War
6) Official licenses for qualified physicians
7) Funding for translations of foreign books
8) Philosophical transactions
9) The Royal Society
What was Humanism?
Belief that humans were in control of their being rather than being in the control of God.
Nullius in verba in English
Take nobody’s word for it
