Patterns Of Change: Health And Medicine Flashcards
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Patterns of change: Health and Medicine
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Quarantine: Just like in 2020, in the Middle Ages when a ship arrived in Venice, no one was allowed for forty days. This was to make sure no one on board brought the plague into the city
Anatomy: During the renaissance people learned more about the human body. Like when William Harvey discovered the circulatory system
Vaccines: Edward Jenner creates the first vaccine against smallpox in the 1700s. He found when people were given small does of cowpox they became immune to smallpox
