The Medical Renaissance In England

Question 1

What does renaissance mean

Answer 1

Rebirth

Question 2

When was the renaissance

Answer 2

1400-1600

Question 3

Give one feature of the renaissance

Answer 3

Improved artwork

Question 4

What was Vesalius’ area of expertise

Answer 4

Human anatomy

Question 5

Name the book written by Vesalius

Answer 5

On the fabric of the human body

Question 6

Name one of Galens errors discovered by Vesalius

Answer 6

The human jaw bone was made from one bone not two .

There is no bone at the base of the heart

The hearts septum has no holes in it

Men and women have the same number of ribs

Question 7

Did all doctors respond positively to Vesalius

Answer 7

No as they felt threatened as thats not what they had built their careers off of

Question 8

Name or describe one of Harvey’s experiments

Answer 8

Cut open cold blooded animals to observe blood movement

Pushed thin rods down veins

Question 9

What’s was Harvey’s main discovery

Answer 9

Blood flowed in a one way system and the heart acted as a pump

Question 10

What was Harvey’s book called

Answer 10

An anatomical account of the motion of the heart and blood in animals

Question 11

How did Harvey prove Galen wrong

Answer 11

Proved blood wasn’t being made in the liver and being burnt up by the body

Question 12

Give some factors that helped Harvey

Answer 12

Education, science , technology

Question 13

How did Sydenham challenge the theory of four humours

Answer 13

He believed to observe individual symptoms , meaning that it was important to find a specific treatment , not a general in which often happened with the theory of four humours .

Question 14

Name a treatment developed by Sydenham

Answer 14

Quinine to treat malaria
Iron to treat anemia
Laudanum ( opium)

Question 15

Name the disease identified by Sydenham

Answer 15

Malaria

Question 16

Give one new idea about the causes of disease during the renaissance

Answer 16

Transference
Seeds in the air that carry diseases

Question 17

Give an old idea about causes of disease during the renaissance

Answer 17

Miasma
4 humours
God
Planets
Evil spirits

Question 18

What old treatments remained popular during the renaissance

Answer 18

Herbal remedies
Balancing humours
Praying

Question 19

What was transference

Answer 19

People with contagious diseases would rub a vegetable e.g. an onion so the disease would transfer onto the onion and off of them

Question 20

What was iatrochemistry

Answer 20

New chemicals

Question 21

What is an apothecary

Answer 21

Created herbal remedies

Question 22

How were apothecaries and surgeons trained in both Middle Ages and renaissance

Answer 22

Apprenticeships

Question 23

Why did surgery improve in the renaissance

Answer 23

Human anatomy had more knowledge and dissection was more common

Question 24

Why did apothecaries have more ingredients for treatments

Answer 24

As the americas were discovered

Question 25

Why did many hospitals close down in the 16th century

Answer 25

King Henry VIII causes the reformation of the church and took all of the money and spent it himself

Question 26

Who ran hospitals after King Henry VIII

Answer 26

Charities

Question 27

What were pest houses

Answer 27

Where people with contagious diseases would go

Question 28

Who made the first micro-scope

Answer 28

Leewenhoek in 1674

Question 29

What did Leewenhoek call micro-organisms

Answer 29

Animalcules

Question 30

When was the great plague of London

Answer 30

1665

Question 31

How many people died in the great plague

Answer 31

100 000

Question 32

Give one thing that the Lord Mayors orders did to deal with the plague

Answer 32

Clean the streets

Question 33

How did Charles II and parliament deal with the plague

Answer 33

Held meetings ( but were mainly for Charles safety ) and also ran away