The Renaissance

Question 1

What does ‘Renaissance’ mean?

Answer 1

Rebirth

Question 2

What word describes something that is non-religious?

Answer 2

Secular

Question 3

What was the belief in Miasmata?

Answer 3

The belief that disease was spread by ‘bad’ air

Question 4

What is the correct term for the early form of chemistry in which people attempted to turn one material into another?

Answer 4

Alchemy

Question 5

What theory was rejected by some physicians in the Renaissance who argued instead that disease was seen as something separate from the body?

Answer 5

The theory of the 4 humours

Question 6

Which English scientist published his theory in 1628 that blood was circulated around the body instead of being made in the liver?

Answer 6

William Harvey

Question 7

What piece of important technology was created by Johnanes Gutenburg in 1440?

Answer 7

The Printing Press

Question 8

How would you summarise the changing ideas about the causes of disease in the Renaissance?

Answer 8

Ideas about the causes of disease started to change, but he practice of medicine changed very little

Question 9

What was Humanism?

Answer 9

Humanism can be characterised by a love of learning, a new interest in classical scholars, and the belief that human beings could make up their own minds about the world around them

Question 10

What method to aid diagnosis did Thomas Sydenham use which gave him the nickname the ‘English Hippocrates’?

Answer 10

Observation

Question 11

What medical theory did Sydenham’s work reject because he argued that the nature of the patient actually had very little to do with disease?

Answer 11

The theory of the 4 humours

Question 12

What institution has less control over the production of books after the printing press was invented?

Answer 12

The Church

Question 13

Which organisation was formed in 1660 where scientists would meet to discuss new ideas and share their discoveries?

Answer 13

The Royal society

Question 14

Which monarch granted a Royal Charter to the Royal Society in 1662?

Answer 14

Charles 11

Question 15

What does the Latin motto ‘Nullius in verba’ mean in English?

Answer 15

Take nobody’s word for it

Question 16

What was the name of the Journal published by the Royal Society which still continues to be published today?

Answer 16

Philosophical Transactions

Question 17

Who discovered ‘animalcules’ on plaque scraped from teeth using the microscope he had developed in 1683?

Answer 17

Leeuwenhoek

Question 18

Who published a book called ‘Micrographia’ in 1665 which included a detailed drawing of a flea copied from a magnified image?

Answer 18

Robert Hooke

Question 19

What theory did Fracastoro outline in his text ‘On Contagion’ published in 1546?

Answer 19

Disease was spread by seeds in the air

Question 20

Transference was?

Answer 20

the idea that a disease could be passed to an object

Question 21

Humoural imbalances were fixed by?

Answer 21

purging, bleeding or sweating

Question 22

Where were physicians finding new remedies from?

Answer 22

Chemical cures

Question 23

What disease had no cure in the Renaissance?

Answer 23

Syphilis

Question 24

Where were the new herbal remedies coming from?

Answer 24

The New World

Question 25

What does the word constitution mean?

Answer 25

the physical fitness, decided at birth

Question 26

What places became unpopular because people thought they spread syphillus?

Answer 26

Bath Houses

Question 27

What did councils do to make sure that people kept the streets clean?

Answer 27

Fined people for not keeping the streets clean

Question 28

Where did Vesalius study?

Answer 28

Paris

Question 29

Where did Vesalius lecture?

Answer 29

Padua

Question 30

What is the word that means to study the body?

Answer 30

Anatomy

Question 31

What was the name of Vesalius’ famous book?

Answer 31

The Fabrica

Question 32

What was so different about Vesalius’ book?

Answer 32

He included lots of detailed drawings

Question 33

What did students buy if they couldn’t afford the whole book?

Answer 33

Fugitive sheets

Question 34

What time period is the Renaissance?

Answer 34

1500-1700

Question 35

What word means staying the same?

Answer 35

Continuity

Question 36

What word means ‘bad air’?

Answer 36

Miasmata

Question 37

What things did Vesalius prove that Galen was wrong about?

Answer 37

There were no holes in the septum, the liver was not 5 lobed and the jaw was one bone not two

Question 38

What A mainly mixed herbal remedies and gained their knowledge from herbal manuals and experience passed down by others?

Answer 38

Apothecary

Question 39

Who were sometimes highly trained but few in number? They could set a broken limb or remove an arrow or cataracts from eyes

Answer 39

Surgeons

Question 40

What was Iatrochemistry?

Answer 40

A form of alchemy which involved experimenting with chemical cures for diseases

Question 41

Which was the most popular theory to explain the causes of the Great Plague in the Renaissance?

Answer 41

Miasma Theory

Question 42

What was the Renaissance term for a doctor who did not have any medical qualifications but still sold their services?

Answer 42

Quack doctor

Question 43

What were Pest houses?

Answer 43

Hospitals who specifically cared for people who suffered from the Plague or the Pox.

Question 44

What was painted on the houses of those who had the Plague during the Renaissance?

Answer 44

Red cross