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WEEK 10 (Renaissance Medicine) Flashcards

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Describe Renaissance Medicine

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  • Age of artistic creation
  • Start of modern medicine and science
  • Age of extreme fifth in the cities & worldwide spread of disease
  • Believed in witches
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What are the correlations between art and medicine?

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  • Anatomy was influenced by art
  • Thousand-year-old schematic illustrations were replaced by new realistic designs
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Doctors, Apothecaries and Painters in Florence belonged to the same guild (TRUE/FALSE)

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TRUE

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Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?

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An artist, scientist and engineer who left a great number of anatomical drawings of unprecedented quality based on numerous dissections

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Which decree allowed both physicians and artist to dissect?

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Sixtus’s decree

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What was the Posthumous book of Antonio Benivieni on hidden causes of disease?

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  • Published in Florence in 1507
  • One of the first attempts to establish a close connection between autopsy findings and clinical observation during life
  • Work covered 22 case reports
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What was important about Jean Fernel?

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  • Regarded gonorrhoea as a separate disease (though final separation only in the middle of the 19th century)
  • Opposed to astrology
  • Criticised Galen but was still faithful to old humoural theories
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What did Jean Fernel provide descriptions of?

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  • Clinical signs of influenza
  • Mode of infection in Syphilis
  • Postmortem findings in tuberculosis, ulcerative endocarditis, a stone filling the renal pelvis
  • Perforated appendix
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What was important about Guillaume de Baillou?

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  • The first clinical description of whooping cough
  • Introduced the notion of rheumatism
  • Revived the epidemiological theories of Hippocrates
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When was Bedside teaching introduced?

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Renaissance period

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The name “Syphilis” is derived from the poem of _____________________

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Girolamo Fracastoro

[Girolamo Fracastoro was a physician, poem, physicist, geologist and astrologist]

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What was Syphilis generally called?

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  • French disease
  • Neapolitan disease
  • Big pox
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What were the theories behind Syphilis?

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  • Syphilis was already prevalent in Europe and in the rest of the world
  • The French acquired from Spaniards at Naples and Spaniards were infected through the sailors of Columbus
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What theory was Girolamo Fracastoro (Fracastorius) famous for?

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He concluded that epidemic diseases were produced by small germs which had the power to multiply in the body of patient -> These were spread either from person to person, at a distance or through infected objects -> Therapeutics deduced from his theory

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Which diseases did Girolamo Fracastoro describe and analyse?

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  • Smallpox
  • Measles
  • Bubonic plague
  • Phtisisis
  • Leprosy
  • English sweat
  • Syphilis
  • Typhus
  • Several skin diseases
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Who was Berengarius of Carpi?

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  • Provided first anatomical drawings based on more than a hundred dissections
  • Described a great number of new structures (sphenoid sinus, appendix and hepatic circulation)
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Who is the father of Modern Anatomy?

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Andreas Vesalius

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What was Andreas Vesalius famous for?

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  • Dissections convinced him that Galen was wrong about many aspects of human anatomy and function
  • He wrote “de Humani Corporis Fabrica”
    [with Stephen van Calcar]
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What did Eustachius describe?

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  • Eustachian tubes
  • The suprarenals
  • The thoracic duct
  • The abducens nerve
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Who is the Father of Toxicology?

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Paracelsus

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What was important about Paracelsus?

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  • Described different toxins and how to differentiate them
  • How to determine if a toxin was treatment or poison
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Who was the first to connect goitre and cretinism?

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Paracelsus

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Who was the first to write a book on miners’ disease?

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Paracelsus

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Describe surgery during the Renaissance period

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  • Rebirth of surgery and its elevation to a much higher level
  • Lowly barbers became surgeons
  • Introduction of gunpowder = An increased need for the surgeons
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What was important about Ambrose Pare?

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  • A French barber who was too poor to join academic surgeons so became a surgeon in the French army -> finally got the title “surgeon” after his achievements
  • Stopped the practice of castration in hernia repair
  • Went back to CAUTERISATION-ONLY
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Who is the father of Surgery?

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Ambrose Pare

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