Renacance Health Flashcards
William Harvey
Doctor for King Charles 1st
He discovered blood circulation
He wrote a book “on the motion of the heart”
He was called a quack
50 years after he descovered circulation it was accepted
Thomas Sydenham
He believed every disease was different
He used the pulse
Stresses knowing the full history of their disease
He fought in civil war
He was practical
His book was the standard for 200 years
Called “English Hippocrates”
Andreas Versallius
Belgian
Disagreed with Galen
He found animals are different to humans and Galen was wrong with that
So he dissected humans and wrote “fabric of the human body” where he detailes how bones,nerves and veins worked
Taught people how to dissect
Paré
He was a barber surgeon
He challenged Galen
He made prosthetic limbs
He wrote a book, it was translated to English
He dealt with gun shot wounds
Oil,egg white, rose oil, turpentine.
John Hunter
He dug up bodies, it was legal to use executed criminals
He discovered transplants
He was able to help aneurisms
( you used to have to get an amputation )
He has a statue
He had 3000 specimens
Who set up hospitals
Henry VIII destroyed loads and set up a few
Communities payed for some
Rich people payed for some
Thomas Gay got loads
What types of hospitals were there
STD hospitals- London lock hospital 1746
Mental Illness- St Luke’s hospital 1751
Pregnant women- middlesex hospital 1747
Poor kids- the founding hospital 1741
Leeds General Infermary-1771
What treatments were administered there
It was free
Still used 4 humours
Poor people got free medicine
They cared for the sick and also cured them
Kids can live there till 15 and get an education.
How did Hospitals contribute to knowledge
Doctors learned in hospitals
Médicale schools attached
Students would see patients
Took scientific approach
Great Plauge “causes”
Dogs and cats
Miasma
How did people try and cure Great Plauge
Women searches to find ill
Live pigeons cut in half
Quarante with Red X on door
Kill dogs and cats ( which made it worse because they can’t kill rats)
Masks
Cleanliness
Used chickens on boils
What were consequences
Link between dirt and disease
No leaving country
Plauge pits
No beggars or performers
1000 people dead a week
Rats got immune so humans didn’t get it
65-100k dead
New laws
What year was the great Plauge
1665
Innoculation
Discovered by Lady Mary Monteque in Turkey
Edward Jenner
Cowpox on farm
James Phillips was his first test
1853 gov made smallpox vaccine mandatory
1802 he got £10,000 for research
Free vaccines for infants in 1840
