renaissance

Question 1

what were similar ideas for natural causes from the middle ages and renaissance

Answer 1

theory of 4 humours
miasma

Question 2

what were new ideas for causes of disease

Answer 2

disease seperate from the body
basic microscopes were developed
greater understanding of anatomy

Question 3

what were treatments for disease

Answer 3

transference
herbal remedies
chemical cures

Question 4

what chemical cure was popular

Answer 4

iatrochemistry

Question 5

why was the 4 humours questioned

Answer 5

did not explain diseases like syphilis and smallpox

Question 6

what idea became more popular

Answer 6

miasma

Question 7

what was transference

Answer 7

the idea that disease could be passed on to other items

Question 8

what was preventions for disease

Answer 8

moderation
cleanliness
weather
government action

Question 9

how was moderation a prevention

Answer 9

disease could be avoided by not being lazy and not eating to much

Question 10

how was cleanliness a prevention

Answer 10

to be free of bad smells(miasma)

Question 11

what did the government do to prevent disease

Answer 11

homeowners were fined if they didnt clean the outside of their house
punishment for criminals was to pick up rubbish and remove sewage

Question 12

what were carers in the renaissance

Answer 12

apothercaries
surgeons
journeyman
physcians
hospitals
pest houses
community care

Question 13

how did apothercaries improve

Answer 13

a license was needed
had proper training and practicing

Question 14

what changed about hospitals

Answer 14

patients started to attend with curable diseases

Question 15

what are journeyman

Answer 15

inexperienced suregeons or apothercaries who were much cheaper

Question 16

what were pesthouses

Answer 16

hospitals for one disease
specialized with the disease

Question 17

who were key individuals in the renaissance

Answer 17

andreas versalius
william harvey
thomas sydenham

Question 18

who was andreas vesalius

Answer 18

famous surgeon and lecturer from belgium
researched anatomy
produced fabric of the human body

Question 19

who was william harvey

Answer 19

an english doctor
theory that veins contained valves
showed that heart recycled blood-proved galen wrong

Question 20

who was thomas sydenham

Answer 20

london doctor in 1660 moved medicine away from galen
refused to rely on medical books
observed symptoms

Question 21

what were new ideas in the renaissance

Answer 21

printing press
humanism
royal society

Question 22

what was the printing press

Answer 22

invented by johannes gutenberg
scientists could now print and share their ideas quickly and accuratley
power taken away from church

Question 23

what was humanism

Answer 23

idea of love of learning
people felt able to make their own minds up

Question 24

what was royal society

Answer 24

more people interested in scientific understandning
it shared experiments and theories

Question 25

what were ideas for causes of the great plague

Answer 25

astrology
punishment from god
miamsa
passing from person to person

Question 26

why was astrology a cause for the great plague

Answer 26

saturn and jupiter were in unusual positions

Question 27

what were treatments for the great plague

Answer 27

quarantine
sweating
transference
herbal remedies

Question 28

how was sweating a treatment

Answer 28

sweat the disease out of the body

Question 29

what were preventions for the great plague

Answer 29

physicians
healers
government action

Question 30

what did physcians do to prevent the great plague

Answer 30

pray and repent sins
quarantine
carry pomander
diets like fasting

Question 31

what did the government do to prevent the plague

Answer 31

public meetings banned
streets swepted clean
fires set to drive away miasma
cats dogs and pigeons were killed-thought thye spread it
red cross was put on the doors of people with the plague