Renaissance Medicine 1500-1700

Question 1

2 examples of what people in 1665 did to prevent the Great Plague

Answer 1

Praying, fasting, herbs in mask

Question 2

1 example of the impact of the development of technology in the Renaissance

Answer 2

the spread of ideas

Question 3

what did Thomas Sydenham rely on instead of medical books?

Answer 3

observations and recordings

Question 4

what did the royal society aim to do?

Answer 4

share scientific knowledge

Question 5

who did Vesalius prove wrong?

Answer 5

Galen

Question 6

2 examples of Vesalius’s accurate anatomical discoveries

Answer 6

jaw had 2 jaw bones, blood did not pass through the septum in the heart

Question 7

what did Harvey discover?

Answer 7

the complete notion of blood circulation

Question 8

what was the long term impact of Harvey’s discovery o the development of medicine?

Answer 8

encouraged others to challenge Galen

Question 9

1 example of continuity between the Renaissance and earlier times?

Answer 9

bleeding + purging

Question 10

1 example of how treatment changed between Medieval times and the Renaissance

Answer 10

hospitals treated people with wounds and infectious diseases