Medical Renaissance In Britain

Question 1

New ideas to the causes of disease

Answer 1

Caused by seeds in the air
Blood circulates the body
Better understanding of the digestive system
New microscopes

Question 2

Why was the impact of new ideas so small

Answer 2

There was a lack of quality medical instruments

No point in learning than when they couldn’t treat it

Question 3

What ideas changed a lot?

Answer 3

The theory of the four humours
The human body
Diagnosis using urine

Question 4

What’s humanism?

Answer 4

Love of learning

Belief that humans could make up their own Minds when it came to discovering truths

Question 5

Thomas Sydenham

Answer 5

Well respected doctor in London
Wanted to move on medical ideas
Didn’t rely on medical books
Treating each symptom separately

Question 6

Influence of the printing press

Answer 6

By 15 there were hundreds in Europe
Enabled information to be spread more quickly
Took the copying out of the hands of the church

Question 7

The Royal society

Answer 7

Met for the first time in 1660
Promoted experimenting in science
Promoting sharing knowledge
Received the royal charter from Charles II
The gave them credibility

Question 8

Treatment of disease

Continuity and change

Answer 8

Change:
Transference-diseases could be spread or transferred to others

Continuity:
Herbal remedies

Question 9

Prevention change and continuity in ideas

Answer 9

Change:
Bathing was less popular
Changes to the weather or atmosphere of disease

Continuity:
Cleanliness still important
Miasma

Question 10

Apothecaries and surgeons

Answer 10

Apothecaries:
Continued to mix herbal remedies

Surgeons:
Trained at uni
Very little practical experience
Better access to books

Question 11

Vesalius

Answer 11

Proved Galen wrong
Found 300 of galen’s mistakes
he encouraged other doctors to base their work on dissection rather than old books

Question 12

William Harvey

Answer 12

Interested in blood
Proved blood flows towards the heart
Contradicted Galen

Question 13

Places that cared for the sick

Answer 13

Hospitals, pest houses and the home

Question 14

Hospitals

Answer 14

Good diet a visit from the physician and medication

Good places of care

Question 15

Pest houses

Answer 15

Hospitals for specific diseases

Places for contagious people to go

Question 16

Home

Answer 16

Women continue to care for the sick

Question 17

The Great Plague

Answer 17

1665-1666

Question 18

Causes of the Great Plague

Answer 18

Astrology, punishment from God and miasma

Question 19

Preventing the Great Plague advice from a physician

Answer 19

Prayer and repentance
Quarantine those with the plague
Carrying pomander miasma
Diets

Question 20

Government action to tackle the plague

Answer 20

Public meetings and fairs were banned
Fires burning sweet-smelling things will lit
Dogs and cats were killed as people believe they carried the disease
People monitored the spread of the disease

Question 21

Why was Thomas Sydenham important to medical progress in the 17th century

Answer 21

he refused to rely on medical books when diagnosing a patient’s illness instead he closely observed the symptoms and treated the disease causing them instead

Question 22

What was invented in around 1440 that helped the spread of scientific knowledge

Answer 22

The printing press

Question 23

Why did people take fewer baths in the 1500s

Answer 23

Syphilis Hood spread quickly and bathhouses making people scared to use them

Question 24

How many mistakes did vesalius find in the works of Galen

Answer 24

300

Question 25

Where were plague victims sent for treatment

Answer 25

Pest houses

Question 26

Who proved the blood circulated within the body

Answer 26

William Harvey

Question 27

List two ways in which people attempted to prevent the spread of the Great Plague

Answer 27

Prayer and quarantine