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6. The Renaissance Medicine
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Facts About the Renaissance Medicine.Comment below If this helps you :)
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6. The Renaissance Medicine
Example of change
Art improved
Clear picture in anatomy book
Printing Press develop
Mass Produce of medical book
More widely read
Ideas spread quickly
Catholic Church control on medicine declined
Some doctors proved Galen wrong
Science become more important at this time
It was trendy to look at how the world/body worked
Rakers, Watchmen ect in the plague
Example of continuity
Galen was studied for 100 years
Monasteries kept Roman ideas on Public Health alive
No idea what caused disease
What did they think caused diseases?
THE PLAGUE – Returned in 1665 No one knows what caused it:
More awareness that they could stop it spreading
Did more to contain the Plague than the Middle Ages
Their efforts were ht and miss (mostly miss)
Didn’t know it was spread by rats or about germs
Sented by God
For their sins
Bad air
Planets
Imbalance of the four humours
Treatment/Prevention
THE PLAGUE 1665
SAME METHOD AS THE BLACK DEATH
Annotations:
More Information on teh Middle Ages Mind-map
Searchers
Checked dead bodies if they died of the plague
Watchmen
Stood outside plague victims houses to stop people going in or
GOOD IDEA - It quarantines victims
Rakers
Cleared away the rubbish
Victim Bodies of the plague were taken at night and buried 6ft deep in mass graves outside cities
Dogs and Cats were killed – thought to spread the plague
BAD IDEA - Rats increased!
Key ideas
Studenst encouraged to copy Romans and Greeks ideas
Re-examine what the Greeks and Romans had dome and come up with new ideas
Key figures
Vesalius
Challenged Galen’s ideas
Encouraged dissections of bodies
Student got close to SEE the dissection and what he was describing
Produce a Book using skilled artist for accurate drawing
The fabric of the Human Body – 1543
He proved Galen was wrong about the kidney and the jaw
Harvey
Proved that the heart pumped blood around the body through experiments
Proved that Galen was wrong
Galen said that the blood was used up like fuel
By measuring how much blood was in the body and that it wasn’t used up
Pare
A French Army Surgeon
Didn’t like burning wound to stop them bleeding and used ligatures (Silk threads to tie up wounds)
Used old Roman ointment to treat gunshot wounds instead of boiling oil
It worked better, less painful and less infection
Wrote a book
A treatise on wounds
Who Treated illness?
Same as the Middle Ages
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