Medicine-The Renaissance

Question 1

When was the Renaissance?

Answer 1

1400-1750 AD

Question 2

Name one famous artist from the Renaissance

Answer 2

Leonardo Da Vinci,Michaelangelo, Rapheal

Question 3

Which area of medicine did Vesalius specialise in?

Answer 3

Anatomy

Question 4

What was the name of Vesalius’ book?

Answer 4

The Fabric of the Human Body

Question 5

What technological improvement helped spread new ideas in the Renaissance?

Answer 5

Gutenberg’s printing press

Question 6

What does Renaissance mean?

Answer 6

Re-birth-people became interested in old ideas and started to come up with new ideas.

Question 7

What factors helped Vesalius to make progress?

Answer 7

Technology (printing press), Individual genius, Art (He used artists to draw detailed pictures for his books), attitudes: enquiry (wanted to challenge the old ideas)

Question 8

How else was Vesalius known?

Answer 8

The body snatcher-he used to take bodies from graveyards to dissect them.

Question 9

How did Vesalius prove Galen wrong?

Answer 9

Proved that the human jaw was one bone, proved the breastbone had three parts, showed that blood does not flow through invisible holes in the septum of the heart.

Question 10

Did everyone support Vesalius?

Answer 10

No, some doctors refused to accept that Galen was wrong.

Question 11

What famous University in Italy did Vesalius and Harvey attend?

Answer 11

Padua University

Question 12

What organ had Galen said produced blood?

Answer 12

The liver-produced new blood.

Question 13

What animals did Harvey experiment on to prove his theory about the circulation of the blood?

Answer 13

Cold-blooded animals such as frogs.

Question 14

Name one reason why their discoveries made little difference

Answer 14

• People still believed in Galen
• They also still believed God caused illness
• People still used the same remedies as they didn’t know much about the causes and cures of illness

Question 15

Why did people queue up to see the King in the 17th century?

Answer 15

The King’s touch-believed they could be cured by the King touching them (supernatural)

Question 16

What disease devastated London in 1665?

Answer 16

The Plague

Question 17

Which famous Renaissance artist used to attend dissections and produce accurate sketches of the human body?

Answer 17

Leonardo Da Vinci

Question 18

What did William Harvey prove?

Answer 18

He proved that blood flowed one way around the body through arteries and veins, proved blood constantly circulated around the body and not made by the liver.

Question 19

Why were Harvey’s discoveries limited?

Answer 19

Took a while to accept, they did not make people healthier, still a lot to discover about blood.

Question 20

What did Pare achieve?

Answer 20

• False limbs
• He came up with a new way of treating gun shot wounds (egg yolks, oil of roses and turpentine) rather than boiling oil
• He used silk ligatures to stop bleeding rather than cauterising (hot iron to seal wounds)

Question 21

What factors helped Pare?

Answer 21

Individual genius, chance (he only came up with new remedy because hot oil ran out), war (battlefield surgeon), technology (printing press)

Question 22

What factors helped Harvey?

Answer 22

Technology (water pump), Attitudes: Enquiry, individual genius, communications (read the earlier works of other doctors)

Question 23

Who treated the sick during the Renaissance?

Answer 23

Trained physicians (not women), quack doctors, women.

Question 24

What was a Quack Doctor?

Answer 24

Untrained doctor who treated sick, but charged them to do it.

Question 25

What was the bezoar stone?

Answer 25

Stone from the stomach of a goat-like animal. It was said to cure all poisons.