Renaissance Flashcards
What does the Renaissance mean?
Re-birth
When was the Renaissance?
1450-1750
Name one technological development during this period
Printing press
Microscope
Pump
When was the Royal Society created?
1662
What was the name of the Royal Society Journal?
Philosophical Transactions
How did the Dissolution affect medicine?
It shut down the monasteries
When did Plague return?
1665/6
What were the Lord Mayor’s Orders?
Close pubs and Theatres
Kill cats and dogs
Appoint nurses, watchers and searchers
What was Thomas Sydenham’s book?
Observationes Medicae
What was Thomas Sydenham’s idea?
Treat the symptoms not the nature of the patient
What was Vesalius’ idea?
Galen was wrong about the structure of the body. Carried out dissection
When did Vesalius publish “Fabric of the Human Body”?
1543
What was Harvey’s idea?
The heart is a pump and pumps around the body
What was the title of his book published in 1628?
“An Anatomical Account”
Name three Renaissance cures for disease
Herbal remedies
Prayer
Bleeding and purging
Name three Renaissance causes of disease
God
Planets
Miasma
Explain three ways in which medicine progressed during the Renaissance period
Work of Harvey Vesalius and Sydenham
Greater action by the government Lord Mayor’s Orders
Dissection allowed
New medicines quinine/ tobacco
Explain three ways in which medicine did not progress during the Renaissance period
No real understanding of the cause of disease
No effective treatments
Limited action by the government
New ideas (Vesalius/ Harvey/ Sydenham) were not widely accepted quickly
Explain how individuals played an important role during the Renaissance
New discoveries
Published their ideas in books
Creation of the Royal Society
Explain how the role of the individual was limited during the Renaissance
People were resistant to new ideas
Ideas were of limited use without understanding the cause of disease
No support from the government
