renaissance

Question 1

what causes of beliefs were still beleieved

Answer 1

misama
four humours (also less by the end)

Question 2

what changed in the work of physicians and scientists?
(due to Thomas Sydenham )

Answer 2

• fewer people believed in astrology so they stopped using astrology charts
• Improved knowledge of digestion meant stop using urine charts
• carried out more direct observations and examinations rather than having the patient explain

Question 3

When / who made the printing press ?

Answer 3

1440
By Gutenberg
by 1500s there were hundred of them

Question 4

What society sponsored scientists and encouraged sharing scientific knowledge and new theories and ideas?

Answer 4

Royal society
-king Charles the II granted a royal charter to the royal society

Question 5

What key figures where in the renaissance period

Answer 5

-Thomas Sydenham
-Vesalius
-William Havery

Question 6

What were the changes in hospitals?

Answer 6

• hospital used more by sick people and less by travellers and pilgrims
• 1563 - dissolution of the monasteries
• some free charity hopsitals set up but not untill 1700’s did they reach pre-dissolution
  -pest houses for specific contagious diseases
• when hospitals re-appeared they were run by a phsicians who focused on healing the sick rather than religion

Question 7

Why was there a lack of care

Answer 7

ideas were slow to be accepted
no direct use in improving treaments
- any discoveries didn’t improve the understanding of diseases

Question 8

what was the great plague

Answer 8

1665 - first serious in England outbreak since black death

Question 9

What was the big difference in how people approached it?

Answer 9

bigger reaction from local councils
who were ordered by the king to try and stop it from spreading
-dogs + cats killed
- streets were cleaned
– carts collected the dead and burried them in deep mass graves