Renaissance medicine Flashcards
What did Vesalius do?
Openly challeneged Galen’s ideas on human anatomy and ended up finding 300 mistakes in his work
He published detailed and labelled drawings of the human body based on dissection
His books ended up being used to train doctors
What did Sydenham do?
Introduced direct observation - doctors checking on the symptons of a patient directly
Rejected the Four Humours and said that God didn’t cause disease
Book used for training
What did Harvey do?
Discovered blood circulation
Proved blood circulation came from the heart which pumped it all around the body
Proved Vesalius right by showing the blood only flowed one way and that arteries and veins were linked in one system
What happened to Harvey’s ideas?
Were slow to take on
Took 50 years for Harvey’s work to appear in universities but he encouraged to challenge traditional ideas
When was the Royal Society founded?
1660
What were the aims of the Royal Society?
Carrying out experiments, encouraging debates, challenging old ideas and searching for new theories and ideas
They printed science books and journals and even translated foreign medical books
How did prevention stay the same in the Reneissance period?
Staying clean and healthy - regiminin sanitatis
Wearing sweet smelling herbs to prevent miasma
Prayer
Astrology blamed
How did prevention change in the Reneissance period?
People started avoiding areas with diseases
Left cities as understood that diseases are contagious
Moderation - avoiding exhaustion, laziness, fatty foods
Who introduced direct observation?
Thomas Sydenham
Who discovered blood circulation?
William Harvey
Who was the first to massively use dissection?
Andreus Vesalius
What was still belived to cause disease?
God, astrology, four humours
However, were believed less
Miasma still popular though
What was used for treatement?
Herbal remedies (e.g. quinine for malaria)
Alchemy + chemicals (but still not very effective cause things like mercury were used)
Magic + supernatural charms
Surgery (but still very dangerous)
What were hospitals like?
A patient would get a healthy diet, visit from a physician and medication
How many hospitals were left after the dissolution of the Monasteries?
5
