Renaissance Medicine Flashcards
Printing press
1440 Johannes Gutenberg
Hundreds by 1500
Took control from church
Anyone could publish ideas
Allowed galen to be criticized
Royal society
Met in 1660 Gresham college
Carry out experiments and compare ideas
1662:Royal charter Charles 11
Gave credibility
Philosophical transactions
1665 1st scientific journal
Encouraged people to write in English and make it more accessible
Ideas available for people to study
Peer reviewed science
Other scientists read and tested your theories to see if they got the same results and validate them
Treatment:transference
The idea that you could give your disease to something else and cure yourself. Practiced by rubbing an ailment with an object.
Treatment:herbal remedies
Believed that herbs grew in the country where that disease was present.
Treated disease with herbs the colour of those symptoms eg. Jaundice-yellow skin
Cure-yellow food/herbs
Prevention:cleanliness
Clean outside house fines if not.
Minor criminals punished with street cleaning.
Prevention:bathing
Less common than in medieval times.
Fearful of syphilis.
Cleaned themselves with linen.
Prevention:miasma
Still very prominent
Prevention:barometers and thermometers
Looked for connection in weather and disease.
Prevention:birth condition
Believed this affected your health in later life.
Treatment:physicians
Training changed little.
Learned from books.
New ideas about anatomy.
Printing press helped.
Treatment: apothecaries and surgeons
Wars meant more injury.
More surgery needed.
Iatrochemistry was experimented.
Key person:Andreas Vesalius
Human anatomist.
Trained at Paris and Padua.
Dissected criminals and encouraged others.
Criticized Galen.
On the fabric of the human body
1543 found 300+ mistakes in Galen’s work because Galen dissected animals.
