Humanism And Thomas Sydenham

Question 1

What is humanism

Answer 1

recognised the importance of the individual in discovering the truth around them. Humanist ideas represented a challenge to the old ideas and encouraged experimentation to find the truth. They rejected the religious idea that God controlled everything

Question 2

What did Thomas Sydenham believe?

Answer 2

encouraged physicians to move away from the classical ideas of Galen and Hippocrates towards the new scientific ideas of observation.

Question 3

What did Thomas Sydenham refuse to rely on?

Answer 3

Medical books

Question 4

What did Sydenham encourage his students to do

Answer 4

observe a patient carefully
record a description of their symptoms
prescribe a remedy that would treat the disease

Question 5

What was Sydenhams nickname

Answer 5

English Hippocrates

Question 6

Sydenham believed diseases were separate with separate causes and symptoms, what was he able to separate?

Answer 6

Scarlet fever and measles

Question 7

When and what was sydenhams book

Answer 7

Observationes Medicae (Medical Observations) in 1676