The Renaissance Flashcards
1
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Causes of diseases (3)
A
- Lack of religion
- Miasma
- 4 humours
2
Q
Prevention of disease (2)
A
- Remove miasma (remove sewage and rubbish)
- Changed clothes rather than bathing
3
Q
Treatments to disease (4)
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- Treatments were continued from the Medieval Era
- New herbal remedies
- Theory of transference
- Alchemy caused chemical cures
4
Q
Why was there a lack of change? (3)
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- 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
5
Q
The doctors of Renaissance England (2)
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- Physicians
- Wise women (women in general)
6
Q
Hospital Care by the 1500s (3)
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- Hospitals treated people
- Did not attend to travellers and pilgrims
- Had apothecaries
7
Q
Hospital care in 1536
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- Dissolution of monasteries caused hospitals to close
8
Q
Hospital care by the 1700s (2)
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- Hospitals started to return to pre-dissolution levels
- Run by physicians
9
Q
What are pest houses?
A
- People with particular disease could go to, to get care
10
Q
What continued in the training for Apothecaries and Barber surgeons? (3)
A
- No university training
- Inferior to physicians
- Cheaper
11
Q
What changed in the training for Apothecaries and Barber surgeons? (3)
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- Better trained through guild systems
- Apprentices, journeymen, masters
- Licence needed after complete training
12
Q
What continued in the training for physicians? (2)
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- Trained at university
- Learning was based on textbooks and not practicals
13
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What changed in the training for Physicians? (3)
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- Better access to a variety of medical books
- New ideas on anatomy inspired physicians to become practical
- Dissection was legalised
14
Q
Changes in the works of physicians (3)
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- Less astrology
- Fewer urine charts due to understanding of digestion
- Observations and examinations of patients
15
Q
When was The Great Plague?
A
1665
