MTT - 2 Renaissance Flashcards
1
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Changes to cause of diseases
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- England was less religious (church had less influence) so Galen became less popular
- less belief about astrology
2
Q
Continuity to cause of disease
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- miasma
- 4 humors
3
Q
Thomas sydenham
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- London doctor who created book called ‘Observationes Medicae”
- diagnosed through observation not medical books
- based the treatments on the disease not the symptoms
4
Q
printing press
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- 1440 Guttenburg
- exact copies in little time
- reduced the churches control bc they couldn’t prevent publication
5
Q
royal society
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- to further scientific understanding and knowledge
1 - they carried out experiments
2. shared knowledge
3. encouraged new theories
6
Q
changes to hospitals
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- run by physicians (not church)
- for the sick (not pilgrimages)
- more pest houses appearing
7
Q
continuity to community care
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- most people still cared for at home
physicians too expensive
8
Q
change to apothecaries and surgeons
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- better trained
- licences needed
9
Q
change to physicians
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- better access to med books
- more experimental
- disection legalised
10
Q
Vesalius
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- dissection (which improved understanding of bod)
- proved Galens theory worked
- his work was published through Europe
11
Q
the great plague 1665 causes
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- miasma
- passed person to person (less ppl believed 4 humors)
12
Q
the great plague 1665 treatments
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- sweating it out
- transference - transferring to bird eat.
13
Q
the great plague 1665 gov action
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- closed theatres
- pets killed
- streets cleaned
- carts collecting dead people
14
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William Harvey discovered
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discovered:
- blood circulation and arterys and veins part of same system
- proved Versalius correct that blood flows one way
- proved Galen wrong - blood not produced by the liver
