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What time period was the Medical Renaissance?

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1500-1700

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What does renaissance mean?

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Rebirth

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What was challenging the Catholic Church?

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Protestantism

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What ideas about disease has changed since medieval period?

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. Improved knowledge of anatomy (e.g William Harvey’s theory)
. Theories that diseases came from outside the body not from Four Humours
. People are more curious to find new ideas about causes of disease
. People were still religious but were beginning to question what the Church was telling them

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What ideas about disease has stayed the same since medieval period?

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. God sent sickness to punish them for their sins
. Still believe miasma causes disease
.Miasma
. The Theory of the Four Humours continued to be accepted during the Renaissance

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What were many common diseases in this time?

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. Plague
. Smallpox
. Great pic (syphilis)

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What was William Harvey’s main theory?

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Blood went around the body by circulation instead of being made in the liver

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What book did Thomas Sydenham write?

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Observations Medicae

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What did the Observation Medicae state?

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Illness could be caused by things outside of the body

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What important technology was invented in this period?

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. Microscopes

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Why was the impact of medical discoveries so small?

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. Lack of quality instruments (such as microscopes)
. Huge gaps in knowledge
. Ordinary people believed in the Theory of Four humours

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True or false:
Patients wanted physicians to come up with new methods

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False
They did not want to pay physicians to experiment on them

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What is humanism?

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People who believe in the importance of science to help understand how the world works and do not accept supernatural or religious ideas.

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True or false:
Everyone could read

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False but more propels could read than before

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15
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How did the Royal Society change ideas?

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They sponsored scientists to research and print findings about medicine. The Royal society helped to spread new ideas especially with invention of printing press.

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16
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How were treatments the same?

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. Since people continued to believe in Four Humours, they used methods to treat that
. Herbal remedies continued to be popular

17
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How were treatments different?

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. New types of herbal remedies
. Belief illness can be transferred onto something else like running a wart on an onion

18
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True or false:
Cleanliness wasn’t as important anymore in prevention of disease

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False

19
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True or false:
They still believed diet played a part in prevention of disease

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True

20
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True or false:
Bathing became less popular for prevention

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True

21
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What did Vesalius do?

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Have more detailed knowledge of human autonomy from his disections of animals.

22
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What was the problem with Vesalius’ dissections?

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He dissected animals because human dissections were banned. Animals do not have the exact same anatomy as humans causing him to have errors in his findings.

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What is the dissolution of the monasteries?

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Hebert VIII split from the Catholic Church and created the Church of England. In 1500s he closed down monasteries and convents

24
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Why did many hospitals close down?

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The dissolution of the monasteries

25
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What were Harveys’s 2 most important discoveries about the circulatory system?

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. Blood flows from arteries to veins through capillaries
. Blood was not made in the liver

26
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What is a limitation of Harvey’s work?

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Understanding of blood had little practical use in medical treatments so many doctors ignored him

27
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What year was the outbreak of the Great Plague in England?

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1665

28
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How many people died in the Great Plague?

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100,000

1/5th of the population

29
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What were the main 4 ideas about causes of the Great Plague?

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. Punishment from God
. Astrology
. Miasma
. Transmitted from person to person

30
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What did the physicians advise to prevent the Great Plague?

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. Pray
. Quarantine anyone who has the plague
. Carry a pomander

31
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What did healers advise to prevent the Great Plague?

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. Smoke tobacco
. Catch syphilis

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What government action was put in place to prevent the Great Plague?

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. Banning public gatherings
. Close theatres
. Keep streets clean
. Quarantine plague victims
. Appoint searchers and wardens

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