Renaissance Treatments Of Disease

Question 1

Treatments (More of the same)
Rebalancing
HRs, 1500 - 1700 Colour or Shape, Ra__, Sa___ (Ye___) treat Ja___ (Ye___ Skin)
RC, Smallpox, RW, RCs, RFs
Age of exploration, new HRs and Ps
Sar___ GP
Ipe___ DYS
Cin__ Ma
Physicians, T__, Co__, Nu__, Ci__ and T___

Answer 1

Rebalancing the humours continued as well, bleeding, purging and sweating all remained popular ways of removing blood during the renaissance
Herbal remedies also continued to be popular, although their use changed slightly: 1500 - 1700 often had remedies chosen by their shape or colour e.g. yellow herbs (radish, saffron) used to treat jaundice = yellow skin
Smallpox, had a red rash as a symptoms and was treated with the ‘red cure’ - drinking red wine, eating red foods and wearing red clothes.
This was also the age of exploration and new herbal remedies started to appear from other countries, new plants also appeared from the new world (America)
Sarsaparilla treats the Great Pox
Ipecac cure for dysentery
Cinchona bark treats malaria
Physicians also tested tea, coffee, nutmeg, cinnamon and tobacco to see if they had impact on disease

Question 2

Treatments (Chemical Cures)
Tra__, rubbing of an onion
Growth of al___, look for CCs, inspired by Par___
Pharmacopoeia Londinensis published by _____ of _____ in 161_ as a manual of ____. Among its ___ ____ were ___ different _________, including mercury and ____. In small doses antimony promotes sweating, which cools the body down
Sweating, wine in an antimony cup overnight, larger doses, Louis XIV
Syphillis arrived ___ and spread across Europe very quickly
Doctors were ___ to treat syphilis. Paracelsus wrote a ______ of syphilis in which he maintained that the disease could be successfully treated by carefully measured doses of ___ leading to it becoming the ____ against syphilis, despite ____ for the ___

Answer 2

Transference: Illness or disease transferred to something else, get rid of warts by rubbing an onion on your skin (warts ‘transfer’ to an onion)
The growth of alchemy allowed people to begin looking for chemical cures for disease, inspired by Paracelsus
The Pharmacopoeia Londinensis published by College of Physicians in 1618 as a manual of remedies. Among its 2140 remedies were 122 different chemical preparations, including mercury and antimony. In small doses antimony promotes sweating, which cools the body down
Patients would leave wine in an antimony cup overnight and drink the contents in the morning. In larger doses, antimony was used to encourage vommiting. Antimony potassium tartrate was said to have cured Louis XIV of France of typhoid fever in 1657, and he became wildly popular after
Syphillis arrived from the New World and spread across Europe very quickly
Doctors were powerless to treat syphilis. Paracelsus wrote a clinical description of syphilis in which he maintained that the disease could be successfully treated by carefully measured doses of mercury leading to it becoming the standard treatment against syphilis, despite being toxic for the sufferer