The Renaissance Flashcards
Causes of diseases (3)
- Lack of religion
- Miasma
- 4 humours
Prevention of disease (2)
- Remove miasma (remove sewage and rubbish)
- Changed clothes rather than bathing
Treatments to disease (4)
- Treatments were continued from the Medieval Era
- New herbal remedies
- Theory of transference
- Alchemy caused chemical cures
Why was there a lack of change? (3)
- Ideas were slow to be accepted
- No direct use of improvements of preventions and treatments
- Discoveries didn’t improve understanding of the cause of disease
The doctors of Renaissance England (2)
- Physicians
- Wise women (women in general)
Hospital Care by the 1500s (3)
- Hospitals treated people
- Did not attend to travellers and pilgrims
- Had apothecaries
Hospital care in 1536
- Dissolution of monasteries caused hospitals to close
Hospital care by the 1700s (2)
- Hospitals started to return to pre-dissolution levels
- Run by physicians
What are pest houses?
- People with particular disease could go to, to get care
What continued in the training for Apothecaries and Barber surgeons? (3)
- No university training
- Inferior to physicians
- Cheaper
What changed in the training for Apothecaries and Barber surgeons? (3)
- Better trained through guild systems
- Apprentices, journeymen, masters
- Licence needed after complete training
What continued in the training for physicians? (2)
- Trained at university
- Learning was based on textbooks and not practicals
What changed in the training for Physicians? (3)
- Better access to a variety of medical books
- New ideas on anatomy inspired physicians to become practical
- Dissection was legalised
Changes in the works of physicians (3)
- Less astrology
- Fewer urine charts due to understanding of digestion
- Observations and examinations of patients
When was The Great Plague?
1665
Causes of The Great Plague (3)
- Same as the black death
- But miasma and 4 humours were less popular
- Communicable
Prevention of The Great Plague (7)
- Same as the black death
- Government
- Theatres
- Stray animals killed
- Tar burned in the street
- Isolation for 28 days
- Pest houses available
Treatment of The Great Plague (4)
- Same as the black death
- Herbal medicine
- Theory of transference
- Sweat out disease
Thomas Sydenham (5)
- London doctor
- Never relied on textbooks but on observed symptoms to diagnose
- Disease had nothing to do with the nature of the person
- Treated diseases as a whole and didn’t focus on individual symptoms
- Theory of signatures
Vesalius (6)
- Dissections
- Improved understanding of human body
- Make anatomy fashionable
- Proved some of Galen’s works false
- Inspired others to dissect
- On the Fabric of the Human Body 1543
Harvey’s discoveries (5)
- Observed patient’s symptoms rather relying on textbooks
- Blood circulation
- Proved that blood flowed towards the heart
- Water pump made him think of heart pump
- Discovered arteries and veins which proved the heart acted as a pump
The Chruch (3)
- Challenged church
- People wanted rational ideas to disease
- Lost influence
When was the printing press made?
1440
Printing press (2)
- More copies of texts produced faster and shared wider
- Reduced church control as it no longer needed its verification
When was the Royal Society made?
1660
Royal Society (4)
- Encourage spread of ideas
- Published philosophical transactions
- Scientists challenged + developed ideas to further scientific understanding
- King Charles II supported + granted Royal Charter
When was the Renaissance era?
C1500 - C1700
