Renaissance Medicine Flashcards
What year was the Great Plague?
1665
What did William Harvey discover?
The heart was a pump and blood circulated around the body
What technology helped spread ideas?
Printing Press
What did Vesalius write?
Fabric of the Human Body
When was the Fabric of the Human Body written?
1543
How many of Galen’s mistakes did Vesalius correct?
Over 200
What did Sydenham do?
Grouped together different symptoms
What group met to discuss scientific ideas?
Royal Society
What was the journal the Royal Society published?
Philosophical Transactions
What year was the Royal Society created?
1660
What did the put on the doors of people with the Plague?
Red Crosses
How did herbal remedies change?
New ingredients from new world
What did Harvey dissect?
Cold-Blooded Animals
When was Harvey’s book the An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Blood in Animals?
1628
Why does the Church have less power?
Church split - Reformation
What is transference?
The idea that a disease could transfer to an object - e.g. rubbing a chicken on a boil
Why did bathing become less popular?
They believed it led to the spread of syphilis
During the Great Plague, how many dogs and cats were killed?
40,000 dogs and 200,000 cats
Why was there some progress in medical knowledge at this time?
Royal Society – spread of ideas; philosophical transactions (1660)
Printing Press – Gutenburg – education taken out of the Church’s hands
Decline of the Church – dissolution of the monasteries – more dissection
Exploration – New World – new medicines
What did Vesalius discover about the jaw?
It was one bone not two
When was Vesalius’ book studied at Cambridge?
1560
