Renaissance Medicine

Question 1

What does the word ‘renaissance’ mean?

Answer 1

Rebirth

Question 2

What ancient writings became popular again?

Answer 2

Ancient Roman and Greek

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Titan

Question 4

When was the printing press invented?

Answer 4

1440

Question 5

How did exploration (travel) help medicine in the Renaissance?

Answer 5

People found new ideas, new ingredients for medicine

Question 6

What new machinery was developed?

Answer 6

The water pump, glass

Question 7

What was the Royal Society committed to?

Answer 7

Experimentation

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Charles II

Question 9

What was the name of Vesalius’s book?

Answer 9

The Fabric of the Human Body

Question 10

When was Vesalius’s book published?

Answer 10

1543

Question 11

What was the difference between Galen and Vesalius’s dissections?

Answer 11

Galen dissected on animals whereas Vesalius dissected on humans

Question 12

What did Galen say about the jawbone?

Answer 12

It had 2 parts

Question 13

What did Vesalius prove about the holes in the septum of the heart?

Answer 13

That they didn’t exist

Question 14

How many parts did Vesalius prove the breastbone had?

Answer 14

3 not 7

Question 15

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

Answer 15

The circulation of blood

Question 16

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

Answer 16

That arteries took blood away from the heart and veins took blood back to the heart

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Valves

Question 18

When did the Great Plague hit London?

Answer 18

1665

Question 19

Give an example of continuity in the way the Great Plague was dealt with

Answer 19

Praying, herbs

Question 20

Give an example of change in the way the Great Plague was dealt with

Answer 20

Infected people were isolated, watchmen, searchers, killed cats and dogs

Question 21

How were the bodies from the Plague disposed of?

Answer 21

Buried 6ft under the ground in mass graves

Question 22

For how long were Galen’s ideas believed?

Answer 22

1500 years

Question 23

Bodies for dissection were in short supply. Where did the anatomists get them from?

Answer 23

The Christian brotherhood took the bodies of executed people and gave them to the anatomists, grave robbers stole bodies

Question 24

How did Harvey compare the heart to a pump?

Answer 24

His friend had a horse riding accident and broke his rib, the skin that grew back grew very thinly and so Harvey could see the heart moving in a pumping motion

Question 25

Name one natural way of treating people in the Renaissance

Answer 25

Herbal remedies