Renaissance Medicine Flashcards
What treatments did people still use in the Renaissance period? (4)
Bloodletting, purging, praying, herbal remedies
How did Vesalius prove Galen wrong in more than 200 ways?
Learnt about anatomy from dissections
Why was Thomas Sydenham known as the English Hippocrates? (2)
Emphasised careful observation, each disease was different
Who discovered that blood is pumped around the body by the heart?
William Harvey
Why were his theories slow to be accepted? (2)
No evidence (needed microscope), power of the Church
What did Gutenberg invent?
Printing press
What did Leeunwenhoek invent?
Microscope
What group included scientists who discussed and experimented?
Royal Society
When was the Great Plague?
1665
How did people try to prevent the Great Plague? (4)
Praying, dogs and cats killed, quarantine, amber burnt on streets
