Renaissance Medicine

Question 1

What does the Renaissance mean

Answer 1

rebirth

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

1662

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

Question 7

When did Plague return

Answer 7

1665 to 1666

Question 8

What were the Lord Mayor’s Orders

Answer 8

Close pubs and theatres Kill the cats and dogs Appoint nurses watchers and searchers

Question 9

What was Thomas Sydenham’s book

Answer 9

Obervationaes 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 illegally

Question 12

When did Vesalius publish The 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

Question 14

What was the title of his book published in 1628

Answer 14

An Anatomical Account

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

God Planets Miasma

Question 17

Explain three ways in which medicine progressed during the Renaissance

Answer 17

Work of Harvey Vesalius and Sydenham Greater government action (Lord Mayors Orders) Allowed dissection New medicine like quinine and tobacco

Question 18

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

Answer 18

No real understanding of the cause of disease No effective treatments Limited government action New ideas were not 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 individuals was limited during the Renaissance

Answer 20

People were resistant to new ideas New ideas were of little use without an accurate understanding of disease No support from government.