Renaissance Causes Of Disease

Question 1

Religious/Spiritual Ideas
P___
Less CS
NMP

Answer 1

Prayer
Less Confessing Sins
No more pilgrimage

Question 2

Causes (Change)
BS because SP GP
Your in

Answer 2

Bloodletting and purging on the decline because of epidemics of the plague such as small pox and the great pox. Four humours cannot be as easily explained
Urine not directly related to a person’s health, so urine no longer used in diagnosis

Question 3

Causes (Continuity)
Luis Sosa

Answer 3

Miasma was now the most commonly believed cause of disease, this meant it had now overtaken the four humours

Question 4

Causes (New Discoveries)
152_ Paracelsus theorised that disease was caused by problems with _______
154_ Fracastoro OC. Seeds, Viruses, No Evidence
168_ Leeuwenhoek, more power ___ which allowed the first recorded observation of ____, which he called ____ but he did not know these were ___ and linked to ___

Answer 4

1526 Paracelsus theorised that disease was caused by problems with chemicals inside the body
1546 Fracastoro made a new text called On Contagion which theorised that disease was caused by seeds spread in the air which was a much closer idea to germs and viruses but had very little impact at the time as Fracastoro had no evidence for his theory
1683 Leeuwenhoek had invented a more powerful microscope which allowed the first recorded observation of bacteria, which he called animalcules but he did not know these were bacteria and linked to disease