Renaissance medicine key words

Question 1

Great Plague

Answer 1

The outbreak of the bubonic plague during the Renaissance period (similar to the black death)

Question 2

Pare`

Answer 2

Surgeon who improved the treatment of wounds

Question 3

Printing press

Answer 3

The invention that allowed books to be printed quickly and accurately

Question 4

Renaissance

Answer 4

The period 1500-1700 which means ‘rebirth’ and was a time when people started questioning Medieval ideas and was the time of the Scientific Revolution

Question 5

Royal Society

Answer 5

The organisation created by Charles II that encouraged scientific thinking and experiments.

Question 6

Thomas Sydenham

Answer 6

The Renaissance doctor who questioned Hippocrates and Galen and had new ideas.

Question 7

Vesalius

Answer 7

He dissected humans and proved Galen had made mistakes about human anatomy ( human body )

Question 8

William Harvey

Answer 8

Doctor who proved the heart was a pump and that Galen was wrong about blood and blood circulation