medical renaissance in england c1550-c1700

Question 1

what two causes did fewer people believe in?

Answer 1

supernatural / religious causes

Question 2

what did the decrease in belief in religious causes do to the church?

Answer 2

reduced power of church

Question 3

what is an example of scientific thinking spreading?

Answer 3

the idea seeds in the air may spread disease

Question 4

what was there less use of when diagnosing?

Answer 4

urine charts

Question 5

what did thomas sydenham promote?

Answer 5

‘direct observation’ of patients and not using books

Question 6

what two theories of causes of disease stayed popular?

Answer 6

miasma and four humours

Question 7

who was the theory of four humours used on?

Answer 7

charles II

Question 8

who did people believe caused the great plague in 1665?

Answer 8

god

Question 9

how was alchemy used as a treatment?

Answer 9

over 122 chemical cures like mercury to cure smallpox but it was dangerous

Question 10

what was transference?

Answer 10

idea illness could be transferred to an object like an onion

Question 11

what did the new world (USA) bring?

Answer 11

herbs / spices like quinine or dysentery to make new remedies

Question 12

what treatment remained popular?

Answer 12

herbal remedies

Question 13

what treatment to do with the four humours was used on charles II?

Answer 13

bleeding and purging

Question 14

how many people touched charles II’s hand to cure what disease?

Answer 14

92,000 people to cure scrofula

Question 15

what was a religious treatment used in the great plague?

Answer 15

prayer

Question 16

what did physicians continue to be?

Answer 16

too expensive

Question 17

where was most care still done?

Answer 17

in the home by women

Question 18

why did physicians have better access to medical books?

Answer 18

printing press

Question 19

what did vesalius improve?

Answer 19

knowledge of anatomy

Question 20

what dissection now allowed?

Answer 20

yes

Question 21

what could surgeons / apothecaries join to get training to become masters?

Answer 21

guilds

Question 22

what were more hospitals doing?

Answer 22

treating the sick

Question 23

what did henry VIII close?

Answer 23

monastery run hospitals

Question 24

what were pest houses for?

Answer 24

contagious diseases

Question 25

what type of hospitals opened?

Answer 25

charity hospitals who focused on treatment not religion

Question 26

what was there emphasis on to remove miasma?

Answer 26

draining swamps and clearing rubbish

Question 27

why did bathhouses close?

Answer 27

to stop the spread of syphilis

Question 28

who was thomas sydenham?

Answer 28

a doctor

Question 29

what did sydenham publish?

Answer 29

‘observationes medicae’

Question 30

what did sydenham challenge?

Answer 30

four humours

Question 31

what did sydenham suggest to do regarding a patients symptoms?

Answer 31

direct observation

Question 32

what was sydenham part of?

Answer 32

royal society

Question 33

what was william harvey and what did he do?

Answer 33

royal physician who did public dissections and recorded symptoms

Question 34

what did harvey use to prove galen wrong?

Answer 34

vesalius’ ideas

Question 35

what did harvey prove wrong about galen’s ideas?

Answer 35

blood circulation

Question 36

where were harvey’s ideas used and what did they encourage?

Answer 36

used in medical school and encouraged further challenge of ideas

Question 37

who was vesalius and what did he carry out?

Answer 37

italian professor who carried out dissection

Question 38

what did vesalius prove wrong?

Answer 38

galen’s idea about the jaw

Question 39

what did vesalius encourage others to do?

Answer 39

challenge galen and do dissections

Question 40

when was the royal society founded?

Answer 40

1660

Question 41

what were the royal society given by charles II?

Answer 41

money

Question 42

what did the royal society encourage the printing of?

Answer 42

‘philosophical transactions’

Question 43

what is an example of the ‘philosophical transactions’?

Answer 43

van leeuwenhoek seeing of bacteria

Question 44

what did most people believe caused the great plague?

Answer 44

miasma

Question 45

when was the great plague?

Answer 45

1665

Question 46

what did people realise about the causes of the great plague?

Answer 46

it could be passed between people

Question 47

what was the treatment of the great plague similar to?

Answer 47

treatment of the black death

Question 48

who did many people visit for treatment of the great plague?

Answer 48

quack doctors

Question 49

what was a method of treatment used during the great plague?

Answer 49

transference

Question 50

what did plague doctors advise to use to prevent the great plague?

Answer 50

herbs

Question 51

what did the government do to improve public health during the great plague?

Answer 51

-closed theatres -killed cats / dogs -burnt tar -carts collected dead -quarantine houses

Question 52

what three individuals contributed to progress during the medicinal renaissance in england?

Answer 52

-sydenham -vesalius -harvey

Question 53

what factors reduced the progress?

Answer 53

old ideas continued and new ideas were slow to spread

Question 54

how did the church affect the progress during the medical renaissance in england?

Answer 54

the church’s power declined which allowed new ideas and dissection

Question 55

how did the government affect the progress during the medical renaissance in england?

Answer 55

the king supported scientific revolution and the gov. acted during the great plague

Question 56

how did technology affect progress during the medicinal renaissance in england?

Answer 56

printing press allowed new ideas to spread which challenged the church