The Medical Renaissance 1500-1700 Knowledge Organiser

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The Medical Renaissance
The Renaissance was the period in England. Art and Science were growing in importance and the power of the Catholic Church declined.

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1500 - 1700

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Vesalius published The Fabric of the Human Body. It showed how the human body worked.

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1543

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the first dissection was carried out in Cambridge

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1565

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Harvey published his book An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood which showed blood moving around the body

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1628

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The first meeting of the royal society

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1660

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The Great Plague. In London, 100,000 people died

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1665

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Who wrote the fabric of the human body which corrected Galen’s mistakes

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Andreas Vesalius

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Who discovered that blood pumps around the body and disapproved of Galen

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William Harvey

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Which doctor helped to move Britain away from Galen and Hippocrates theories and encouraged doctors to take detailed notes of patients symptoms

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Thomas Sydenham

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Alchemy

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Early chemistry, trying to turn one material into another.

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Anatomy

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The study of the human body and how it works

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Autopsy

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Dissecting a body after someone has died to establish cause of death

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Diagnosing

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Finding out what disease someone has by e.g. taking their pulse and observing the patient

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Humanism

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Intellectual movement which promoted a love of learning and discovery

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London Treacle

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A 17th century version of a medieval theriaca, used to treat the plague

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Microscope

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A new invention that allowed things to be magnified

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Pest House

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A hospital for people suffering from infectious diseases, e.g plague

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philosophical Transactions

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The first ever scientific journal, first published in 1665 by the Royal Society (and still is today)

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Printing

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The process of creating a book. This was developed during the 1440s in Germany

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Royal Society

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A group of people interested in science who met weekly. They had a laboratory with microscopes. King Charles II was a patron

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Thermometer

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A new invention that allowed someone’s temperature to be taken

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Renaissance

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this was a time of change (re-birth) when people became interested in all things Greek and Roman. Printing was developed so that books could be published (e.g. Galen, Vesalius). People realised the Greeks had loved enquiry – asking questions and challenging old ideas. They started to do the same – e.g challenging Galen’s theories