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Who are the big 3 individuals?

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Vesalius, Paré and Harvey

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Who invented the printing press?

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Johannes Gutenberg

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How were renaissance artists important to medicine?

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They drew detailed sketches of the human body

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How did Vesalius learn about human anatomy?

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Dissection of executed criminals

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What was Vesalius’ book called?

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On the fabric of the human body

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When was Vesalius’ book published?

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1543

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What did Vesalius prove about the jaw that Galen got wrong?

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It was one bone

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What did Vesalius prove about the sternum that Galen got wrong?

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It was made of 3 bones

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How did Paré start in medicine?

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Barber Surgeon

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What did Paré use on wounds instead of burning oil?

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A mixture of egg yolk, turpentine and rose oil

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What did Paré use instead of a cautering iron to stop bleeding?

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He used silk thread to tie the blood vessels, this was called ligatures and did not reduce the death rate

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What did Paré invent for soldiers missing limbs?

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Paré created prosthetics made of wood for soldiers who were missing limbs

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What did Harvey discover?

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Blood circulation

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How did Harvey disprove Galen?

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He proved new blood wasn’t made in the liver

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How did Harvey build knowledge about the cardiovascular system?

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He dissected animals

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What did Harvey discover about the heart?

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He discovered that the heart pumps blood around the body

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How did Hunter get Gonorrhea and Syphilis?

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He injected himself with pus from a Gonorrhea patient, without realising the patient also had Syphillis

18
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Who did Hunter train?

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Edward Jenner

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What was the book that Hunter wrote on teeth called?

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The Natural History of the Human Teeth

20
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Whst did Hunter do that caused people to not like him?

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He paid graverobbers to steal bodies for him

21
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How did Jenner come up with the smallpox vaccine?

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He realised that those who had had cowpox could not get smallpox

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How did Jenner test his theory on the vaccine?

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He infected his gardeners 8 year old sone, Thomas Phibbs with cowpox and then smallpox

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3 reasons people didn’t like Jenner’s vaccine?

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They believed it was unchristian, they didn’t trust science due to Hunter’s ethical issues and they didn’t want to put animal things inside them

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How many people died in London because of the Great Plague?

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100,000

25
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How was the plague dealt with?

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They quarantined ships going into London, locked up the houses of the infected and painted red crosses on the doors

26
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How were the Black Death and Great Plague dealt with similarly?

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Bloodletting and purging were widely used on both, miasma was still believed to be a cause as well as God

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How were the Black Death and Great Plague dealt with differently?

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Quack doctors “treated” the Great Plague, the alignment of the planets wasn’t believed to be a cause of the Great Plague and less people died in the Great Plague

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What were common treatments in Renaissance England?

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Bloodletting and purging

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How were the hospitals funded?

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Rich private donors

30
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Why would people go to a hospital over a physician?

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Hospitals treated people for free

31
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What treatments did physicians sell?

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Treatments based on the four humours

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Where were physicians trained?

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University

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What would apothecaries sell?

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Herbal remedies and medicines

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How were apothecaries trained?

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Through apprenticeships working with experienced apothecaries

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What was a quack doctor?

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An unqualified person selling medical “miracles”

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What was Vesalius’ theory on blood?

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That it contained valves to allow the blood to flow through the veins

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