Renaissance treatment

Question 1

Was regimen sanitatis as popular as it had been in Medieval times?

Answer 1

Yes people were still keeping clean and free from bad smells

Question 2

What new herbal treatments existed after global exploration?

Answer 2

I.Yellow herbs such as radish or saffron would be used to treat jaundice or smallpox (which has a red rash) would be treated with II.‘red cures’ – red wine, red foods and red clothes.
III.Coffee.
IV.Cinchona Bark from Peru.

Question 3

What was medical chemistry / iatrochemistry?

Answer 3

Experiments with chemicals

Question 4

Who was Andreas Vesalius and what did he do?

Answer 4

He carried out a large number of dissections to find out how the body worked and found about 300 mistakes in Galen’s works. He also encouraged other doctors to carry out dissections to advance their medical knowledge.
II.He published the correct structure of the human body in a book called “The Fabric of the Human Body”