Renaissance Medicine 1500-1700

Question 1

What does Renaissance mean?

Answer 1

Rebirth.

Question 2

What were the causes and diagnosis of diseases?

Answer 2

God,4 Humours, Miasma (bad air), Planets out of line. (same as the middle ages) They were also trying to learn more.

Question 3

Who was the English father of medicine?

Answer 3

Thomas Sydenham.

Question 4

What did Thomas Sydenham do?

Answer 4

He focused on the progress, cures, diagnosis and natural cures rather than supernatural ones.

Question 5

What were the treatments and care?

Answer 5

Bleeding, Purging, Herbal remedies, God and the king, Folk remedies. (same as middle ages) They also tried to find more practical cures.

Question 6

What types of healers/hospital thingys were there?

Answer 6

Women had an important role still, they had Physicians, Doctors, Surgeons and Apothecaries.

Question 7

What training did the Physicians get?

Answer 7

They focused more on vesalius and anatomy and harvey and physiology.

Question 8

What ancient writings became popular again?

Answer 8

Greek and Roman.

Question 9

Name the famous artist from the period that drew life like drawings of the body.

Answer 9

Leonardo Da Vinci.

Question 10

What was the Royal Society committed to?

Answer 10

Spreading discoveries, Science.

Question 11

When was the Royal Society set up?

Answer 11

Mid-late 1600s.

Question 12

Who set up the Royal Society and ironically was also bled to death in this period?

Answer 12

Charles ll.

Question 13

What is anatomy?

Answer 13

Structure of the body.

Question 14

What was the name of Vesalius’ book?

Answer 14

Fabric of the human body.

Question 15

When was it published?

Answer 15

1543.

Question 16

When was the printing press invented?

Answer 16

1445.

Question 17

What was dissection?

Answer 17

Cutting open the body and studying the structure of it.

Question 18

What was the difference between Galen and Vesalius’ dissections?

Answer 18

Galen dissected animals.

Vesalius dissected humans.

Question 19

What did Galen say about the jawbone?

Answer 19

It had 2 bones.

Question 20

What did Vesalius prove wrong about the breast bone?

Answer 20

He proved there were 3 bones not 7 (as Galen had said)

Question 21

What did Vesalius prove about the holes in the septum?

Answer 21

There were no holes.

Question 22

Harvey’s book was published in 1628. What was it about?

Answer 22

Circulation of the blood.

Question 23

What did Harvey’s experiments show about the arteries and veins?

Answer 23

His experiments showed that veins carried blood around the body, not blood and air.

Question 24

What did Harvey discover that allowed blood to only flow in one direction?

Answer 24

He discovered valves.

Question 25

When did the Great Plague hit London?

Answer 25

It hit London in 1665-1666.

Question 26

What is an example of continuity in the way it was dealt with.

Answer 26

Bloodletting.