medical renaissance

Question 1

key points about the renaissance

Answer 1

ideas about desease changed however in the way doctors treated and prevented desease it was a time of continuity

Question 2

attitudes: what was humanism

Answer 2

the rejection of religous iedas and using science and experiments to answer questions about the world

Question 3

attitudes: what was seclerism

Answer 3

the idea that religion sould be seperate from other aspects of life. this kled toi the church graduallt lossig control over medicine and education.

Question 4

what new technology was created

Answer 4

clocks, microscopes, thermometres, pumps and barometres
this all made science experiments much easier

Question 5

what developed in educatiopn

Answer 5

more people could afford education
new universities e.g padua and cambridge
experiments where encouraged

Question 6

what developed in communication

Answer 6

the printintg press was developed in 1440 which meant it was much quicker and cheaper to make and buy books. Ended te churches control over book production and iedas

Question 7

whan was the rennaisance

Answer 7

1500-1700

Question 8

when was the royal society set up

Answer 8

1660

Question 9

why was the royal society significant

Answer 9

it recieved a royal charter from charles 2nd which meant they had credibility, there profile was raised and they got funding and more peole sent there work in to be published

Question 10

what resources did the roiyal society have

Answer 10

its own laboratory, microscopes, it allowed members to do experiments

Question 11

when was the worlds first scientific jpournal and what was it called

Answer 11

1665 and it was called “philisophical transactions”
and allowed scientists to have there work spread

Question 12

why was the fact that the royal societys work was in english not latin a big deal

Answer 12

it made the work accesible for everyone and not just the church

Question 13

ideas in the renaissance:

Answer 13

1.god and sin - still caused by the church- most people thought illness wasnt a punishment by the end however - blamed for the plague though
2. four humour theory - by the end of 1700 most physicians stopped beleiving in the humours and it was acctually disproved by 1700, ordinary peole still followed it, beleif that peole where born with strong or weak consstitution
3.miasma theory - rational, widely beleived in this period especially during the great plague
NEW IDEA: contagion - deseiese was caused by seeds in the air, rational -beleif that certain conditions spread deseiese.
4. astrology was much less popular

Question 14

treatments:

Answer 14

1. god and sin - praying, fasting, avoiding sin, kings touch NO MORE CATHOLIC PRACTICES e.g pilgramiges and relics
2. four humours - purging, bloodletting, herbal remedies and theriacs
   3.herbal remedies - match to the colour of the desiese
3. transference - the idea that you could transfer the desiese to other objects
4. new world = cinchona bark from peru was poularised by thomas sydneham for malaria

Question 15

prevention:

Answer 15

1.god and sin - prayer, avoiding sin, repentance(showing god you were sorry), NO FLAGELANTS
2. four humours - ideas of a balanced lifestyle - avoiding fatty foods
3.miasmas - hygeine was seen as being important, public baths abolished as it was associated with syphylis, some poepl used regimen sanitatis - nice smelling herbs - move from smells
4. contagin - move from deseised areas

Question 16

who was sydnham and what was his ideas

Answer 16

1. he didnt follow the workk of galen and hippo
2. he refused to use books to diagnose illness
3. he beleived deseise cam dfrom outside the body not inside
4. he studied people close
5. treated the desiese as a whole not individuala symptoms
6. encouraged doctors to use remedies not seperate symptoms
7. didnt beleive in constitution
8. set up the foundations for scientific approach to medecine