Renaissance Medicine

Question 1

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What does the Renaissance mean?

Answer 1

Re-birth

Question 2

When was the Renaissance?

Answer 2

1450-1750

Question 3

Name one technological development during this period

Answer 3

Printing press
Microscope
Pump

Question 4

When was the Royal Society created?

Answer 4

1665

Question 5

What was the name of the Royal Society Journal?

Answer 5

Philosophical Transactions

Question 6

How did the Dissolution affect medicine?

Answer 6

It shut down the monasteries & the hospitals associated with them

Question 7

When did Plague return?

Answer 7

1665/6

Question 8

What were the Lord Mayor’s Orders?

Answer 8

Close pubs and Theatres
Kill cats and dogs
Appoint nurses, watchers and searchers

Question 9

What was Thomas Sydenham’s book?

Answer 9

Observationes Medicae

Question 10

What was Thomas Sydenham’s idea?

Answer 10

Treat the symptoms not the nature of the patient

Question 11

What was Vesalius’ idea?

Answer 11

Galen was wrong about the structure of the body. Carried out dissection

Question 12

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When did Vesalius publish “Fabric of the Human Body”?

Answer 12

1543

Question 13

What was Harvey’s idea?

Answer 13

The heart is a pump and pumps blood around the body through veins & arteries

Question 14

What was the title of his book published in 1628?

Answer 14

“An Anatomical Account of the motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals”

Question 15

Name three Renaissance cures for disease

Answer 15

Herbal remedies
Prayer
Bleeding and purging

Question 16

Name three Renaissance causes of disease

Answer 16

Miasma
Planets
God

Question 17

Explain three ways in which medicine progressed during the Renaissance period

Answer 17

Work of Harvey Vesalius and Sydenham
Greater action by the government Lord Mayor’s Orders
Dissection allowed
New medicines quinine/ tobacco

Question 18

Explain three ways in which medicine did not progress during the Renaissance period

Answer 18

No real understanding of the cause of disease
No effective treatments
Limited action by the government
New ideas (Vesalius/ Harvey/ Sydenham) were not widely accepted quickly

Question 19

Explain how individuals played an important role during the Renaissance

Answer 19

New discoveries
Published their ideas in books
Creation of the Royal Society

Question 20

Explain how the role of the individual was limited during the Renaissance

Answer 20

People were resistant to new ideas
Ideas were of limited use without understanding the cause of disease
No support from the government