Mediaeval to Renaissance causes of disease

Question 1

What time period was the renaissance

Answer 1

1500 - 1700

Question 2

What is renaissance French for

Answer 2

Re birth

Question 3

What improved during the renaissance

Answer 3

Medicine
Science
Technology
Art

Question 4

What did people have an interest in for the first time during the renaissance

Answer 4

Learning for themselves rather than being told what to believe by the church

Question 5

What was now legal during the renaissance

Answer 5

Dissections so people could cut open bodies and see what is inside

Question 6

What did people in mediaeval period believe human body was made up of

Answer 6

Four humours
black bile
yellow bile
Blood
Phlegm

Question 7

When was the medieval period

Answer 7

1250 - 1500

Question 8

What was believed to happen if the humours became unbalanced

Answer 8

You will become ill 

Question 9

How did they believe you should cure yourself in the mediaeval period

Answer 9

Balance the humours and remove some of the humours that are unbalanced

Question 10

What are some ways of balancing the humours

Answer 10

Bloodletting
Purging

Question 11

What continued about four humours into the renaissance

Answer 11

Most doctors and people at the time still thought the four humore cause disease

Question 12

What changed about the theory of four humours during the renaissance

Answer 12

Sydenham began to reject the theory of four humours as it couldn’t explain an epidemic such as the great plague

Question 13

What is miasma

Answer 13

Believe that bad smells cause disease

Question 14

What continued about miasma into the renaissance

Answer 14

People still believe that bad smells and evil fumes cause disease

Question 15

What did mediaeval people believe about God and disease

Answer 15

Believed God sent disease as a punishment for sinning 

Question 16

What continued about beliefs of God and disease into the renaissance

Answer 16

During the great plague people blamed God for sending it 

Question 17

What are flagellants

Answer 17

People flogging themselves to remove sins

Question 18

What changed about the idea of disease and God during the renaissance

Answer 18

The power of church began declining during the renaissance and less people believe God cause disease

Question 19

What was believed about the supernatural during mediaeval period

Answer 19

People believed in zodiac signs in the alignment of the planets

Question 20

What continued about belief of supernatural into the renaissance

Answer 20

During some diseases such as the plague people blamed it on the alignment of Jupiter and Saturn

Question 21

What changed about the belief of supernatural in the renaissance

Answer 21

Fewer people believed in supernatural causes

Question 22

Who invented the theory of the four humours

Answer 22

Greek physician Hippocrates

Question 23

Who created the theory of opposites

Answer 23

Galen

Question 24

What was the theory of opposites

Answer 24

To treat someone you should do something that’s the opposite of the problem They have

Question 25

Examples of the theory of opposites

Answer 25

If people had colds. They will take a warm bath or eat a chilli
If a patient has too much blood and we’re hot and dry they should be treated with cucumber because it’s cold and wet

Question 26

How was disease diagnosed during the mediaeval period

Answer 26

Observing samples of urine and using urine chart
Looking at zodiac man