The Renaissance Flashcards

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What was the main idea is the renaissance

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It was a time of new ideas and fresh thinking

A time of continuity and change

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What was rediscovered in the renaissance

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The classic knowledge from the Greek and Roman times

Western doctors rediscovered the writings of Galen and Hippocrates

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What did the renaissance see the emergence of

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Science

People were thinking of how the human body worked based on direct observation and experimentation

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What were the new book discoveries suggesting

And what did this encourage

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That anatomy and dissections were very important

It encouraged people to examine the body themselves and come to their own conclusions on the cause of disease

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Who did people begin to question

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The way of galens thinking and ideas

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What did Vesalius believe

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He beloved that successful surgery would only be possible if doctors had a proper understanding of the anatomy

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Who did Vesalius perform dissections on

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Criminals who has been executed

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What did he wrote books on and what was his most famous book

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His observations using accurate diagrams to illustrate his work
The fabric is the human body in 1543

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What did the invention of printing mean

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Books could be copied more easily and it allowed new ideas to be shared and old ideas to be discussed and questioned

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How was Vesaliuss work spreaded

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It was printed and distributer across Europe and British doctors read his work

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How did Vesalius point out some of galens mistake

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He showed there were no holes in the septum of the heart

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What did Vesalius show was important

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That dissecting bodies was important to find out exactly how the human body was structured

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Did Vesaliuss work have an immediate impact on the diagnosis or treatment of disease

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No it didn’t have
But by producing a realistic description of the human anatomy and encouraging dissection he provided an essential first step to improving them

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What were the 3 key individuals of the renaissance

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William Harvey and ambroise pare and Vesalius

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What did Harvey discover

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The circulation of the blood

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Where did Harvey come from

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Who did he become a royal physician for

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James I and Charles I

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What did it mean that he was a British doctor studying in a European university

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He could bring the latest ideas of medicine back to Britain

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What did Harvey study on

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Both animals and humans

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What did people think about the blood before Harvey

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They thought there were 2 kinda of blood and that they flowed two though two completely separate systems of blood vessels
This idea came from Galen

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What did Harvey realise

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He through the blood must circulate as too much blood would of been being formed and consumed
So the blood must go round and round the body

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What did Harvey show in his books

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A map of how the body worked changing doctors understanding of anatomy

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Did everyone believe his theories straight away?

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No because people didn’t want to question Galen

People continued to use blood letting

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What did paré improve

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Surgical techniques

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Who was paré
A French barber-surgeon born in 1510 | He became an army surgeon
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What did paré do as an army surgeon
Great many serious injuries caused by war and this experience of treating these wounds led him to develop some improved surgical techniques
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What was the usual treatment for gunshot wounds
To burn the wound with red hot iron or boiling oil which did more harm than good
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What happenend to paré to led him to a new discovery
He ran out of oil and resorted to a type of ointment called cool salve To his surprise the patients treated in this way did better than the ones scaled with oil
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What happenend before paré to severed blood vessels left by amputations
They were sealed by burning their ends with red hot iron which was called cauterisation
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What method did paré invent to treat severed blood vessels
He tied off the end of vessels with threads | Called ligatures
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What was better about parés use of ligatures
It was less painful than cauterisation and it reduces the chances of the patient dying of shock
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What was bad about parés invention of ligatures
It increased the risk of infection
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Why were parés ideas resisted
Because doctors felt that a lowly surgeon shouldn’t be listened to
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What time of impact did parés inventions have
Long term impacts