renaissance medicne

Question 1

What does renaissance mean ?

Answer 1

It is the Italian word for rebirth. This was because the ideas of the renaissance were a rebirth of accident Greek and Roman ideas

Question 2

How did Vesalius disprove Galen’s theories?

Answer 2

• breastbone has 3 parts,not 7

- the jawbone is made of one bone, not 2

Question 3

What actions were taken to deal with the great plague of 1665?

Answer 3

• those who were sick were quarantined
• bodies were buried at night in madd plague pits
• fires were lit
• pigs,dogs and cats were banned from streets

Question 4

Who would treat ordinary people in the early modern period?

Answer 4

• barber-surgeons
• apothecaries
• wise woman
• quacks

Question 5

What invention allowed renaissance ideas to spread more quickly and cheaply ?

Answer 5

The printing press was invented in 1451 which allowed books to be printed more quickly and accurately

Question 6

How did paré change the treatment of gunshot wounds?

Answer 6

He stopped using boiling oil to burn the wounds out, instead using an ointment of rose oil, egg white and turpentine

Question 7

How did the church influence the development of hospitals?

Answer 7

The church stressed the importance of Christians caring for others, rather then just going to church, they did good deeds such as donate to and build hospitals

Question 8

What new medicines were introduced by exploration?

Answer 8

• bark of the cinchona tree
• containing quinine for malaria
• opium as an anaesthetic
• lemons and limes for scurvy
• tobacco for toothache

Question 9

What new things made the renaissance so important ?

Answer 9

• new lands
• new ideas spread quickly
• new inventions
• new learning
• new style of art

Question 10

What was Jenner’s method of preventing smallpox called?

Answer 10

Vaccination

Question 11

Why did Jenner’s ideas have such great impact?

Answer 11

Because he proved his theories using scientific methods and carefully identified the cowpox disease

Question 12

What did people believe caused the great plague of 1665?

Answer 12

• punishment from god
• movement of the planets
• poisonous air
• rubbish in the streets

Question 13

What different wards did hospitals in the eighteenth century have?

Answer 13

• mental illness (bedlam)
• sexually transmitted disease (lock hospital)
• maternity
• poor children

Question 14

Which people opposed Jenner’s method of vaccination?

Answer 14

• doctors who were profiting from inoculation

- religious people who said god punished people with disease for a reason

Question 15

How many patients were London’s hospitals able to deal with by 1800?

Answer 15

20,000

Question 16

What did paré promote the use of in amputations?

Answer 16

Ligatures,after using a ‘crows beak clamp’ to halt bleeding. However, ligatures were not a perfect method of stopping bleeding.

Question 17

What was the name of the first method used to try and prevent smallpox?

Answer 17

Inoculation

Question 18

What was the name of Vesalius’s landmark book, published in 1543?

Answer 18

The fabric of the human body

Question 19

What did Harvey discover?

Answer 19

• proved that blood only flowed on way around the body
• the heart is a pump
• there are no holes in the heart through which blood flows
• blood is not burned up in the body

Question 20

Who was the surgeon that made Greta changes to knowledge about anatomy in the eighteenth century?

Answer 20

John Hunter