Renaissance Medicine (1500-1750)

Question 1

CAUSE:
Give the 4 causes of illness people continued to believe in the Renaissance period

Answer 1

God
Bad air
4 humours
Planets and stars

Question 2

TREATMENT:
Give the 4 causes of illness and there relative treatments

Answer 2

God - prayer, gifts to the church, pilgrimage
Bad air - birds in house flapping, sit near fires, carry herbs
4 humours - regular bleeding and purging
Planets and stars

Question 3

CASE STUDY:
Name the disease that is the case study for the Renaissance period AND the year that it spread

Answer 3

Great Plague 1665
75,000 died

Question 4

CASE STUDY: PREVENTIONS
Give 5 methods used to prevent catching the Great Plague during the Renaissance period

Answer 4

Government - Mayor of London’s orders

God - prayer, gifts to the church, pilgrimage
Bad air - birds in house flapping, sit near fires, carry herbs
4 humours - regular bleeding and purging
Planets and stars

Question 5

PROGRESS / CHANGE / INDIVIDUALS:
What was Thomas Sydenham’s nickname AND how did he help medicine progress?

Answer 5

the English Hippocrates
observation - different symptoms should be treated differently

Question 6

PROGRESS / CHANGE:
Explain two ways communication improved in the Renaissance period

Answer 6

Gutenburg’s Printing press 1450’s- printing Vesalius’s book: Fabric of the Human Body

Royal Society 1645

Question 7

PROGRESS / CHANGE / INDIVIDUALS:
What is William Harvey’s contribution to medicine?

Answer 7

heart pump - circulation of blood - disproving Galen’s ideas

Question 8

PROGRESS / CHANGE / INDIVIDUALS:
What is Andreas Vesalius’s contribution to medicine AND what was the name of his book?

Answer 8

understanding of anatomy - published Fabric of the Human Body

Question 9

NO PROGRESS / CONTINUITY:
Explain the 3 problems of surgery that remained unsolved in the Renaissance period

Answer 9

infection - no antiseptic
pain - no anaethestic
blood loss -

Question 10

PROGRESS / CHANGE:
Which area of surgery improved in the Renaissance period?

Answer 10

anatomical understanding - Vesalius

Question 11

INVENTION:
Name two inventions that aided progress in the Renaissance period

Answer 11

microscope
thermometer

Question 12

PROGRESS / CHANGE / INDIVIDUALS:
What is Pare’s contribution to medicine

Answer 12

French surgeon
wash wound with rose water
stitch wound shut rather than burn closed with hot oil