Medicine Through Time c1500 - c1700 Flashcards
What YEARS does the Renaissance cover?
c1500 - c1700
What did people think CAUSED disease?
GOD
MIASMA
UNBALANCED HUMOURS
How did people try to PREVENT disease?
- Burn barrels of TAR
- Smoke TOBACCO
- Use SWEET - SMELLING HERBS
- REGIMEN SANITATIS
- PRAYER
How did people try to TREAT disease?
PRAYER/AMULETS
HERBAL REMEDIES/BLOOD - LETTING
Who were the KEY PEOPLE in the Renaissance? (3)
THOMAS SYDENHAM
WILLIAM HARVEY
ANDRES VESALIUS
What was SYDENHAM famous for?
Categories illness by symptoms by observation and wrote a book (“Observation medicae”). He works out scarlet fever and measles are different. Known as the English Hippocrates
What was HARVEY famous for?
He works out that the heart is a pump, that blood circulates, it is not burnt and it is not made in the liver. He does lots of work on cold blooded animal: lizards, frogs, snake so he can see slow circulation.
What was VESALIUS famous for?
An anatomist. He does dissections of humans. He proves over 200 of Galens mistakes wrong. E.g. the jaw is made of one bone not two, and there is no physical soul. Vesalius inspires other scientists, changes training of physicians.
Which INSTITUTIONS are powerful?
CHURCH
ROYAL SOCIETY
What ATTITUDES did people have?
ASKING QUESTIONS
REPEATING EXPERIMENTS
What TECHNOLOGY was there?
PRINTING PRESS
What is the CASE STUDY for the Renaissance
THE GREAT PLAGUE (1665)
PLAGUE DOCTORS wore beaks with herbs and carried pomanders (sweet smelling balls of herbs)
QUARANTINES people in their homes – red cross painted on door with “Lord have mercy on us”. Locked in for 28 DAYS. Closed theatres, shut big fairs, banned large gatherings like funerals
Who CARES for the sick?
MONKS / NUNS until the Dissoluton of the monasteries. Then PHYSICIANS, DOCTORS, NURSES
