Renaissance Medicine

Question 1

What year was the Great Plague?

Answer 1

1665

Question 2

What did William Harvey discover?

Answer 2

The heart was a pump and blood circulated around the body

Question 3

What technology helped spread ideas?

Answer 3

Printing Press

Question 4

What did Vesalius write?

Answer 4

Fabric of the Human Body

Question 5

When was the Fabric of the Human Body written?

Answer 5

1543

Question 6

How many of Galen’s mistakes did Vesalius correct?

Answer 6

Over 200

Question 7

What did Sydenham do?

Answer 7

Grouped together different symptoms

Question 8

What group met to discuss scientific ideas?

Answer 8

Royal Society

Question 9

What was the journal the Royal Society published?

Answer 9

Philosophical Transactions

Question 10

What year was the Royal Society created?

Answer 10

1660

Question 11

What did the put on the doors of people with the Plague?

Answer 11

Red Crosses

Question 12

How did herbal remedies change?

Answer 12

New ingredients from new world

Question 13

What did Harvey dissect?

Answer 13

Cold-Blooded Animals

Question 14

When was Harvey’s book the An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Blood in Animals?

Answer 14

1628

Question 15

Why does the Church have less power?

Answer 15

Church split - Reformation

Question 16

What is transference?

Answer 16

The idea that a disease could transfer to an object - e.g. rubbing a chicken on a boil

Question 17

Why did bathing become less popular?

Answer 17

They believed it led to the spread of syphilis

Question 18

During the Great Plague, how many dogs and cats were killed?

Answer 18

40,000 dogs and 200,000 cats

Question 19

Why was there some progress in medical knowledge at this time?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What did Vesalius discover about the jaw?

Answer 20

It was one bone not two

Question 21

When was Vesalius’ book studied at Cambridge?

Answer 21

1560