Renaissance Flashcards
(8 cards)
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Who was Andres Vesalius?
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- Studied anatomy, became professor of surgery and anatomy at Padua
- Wrote books based on his observations using accurate diagrams to illustrate his work.
- Vesalius encouraged doctors to dissect and look for themselves
- Vesalius said there were no holes in the septum of the heart and that the jaw bone is not made up of two bones
2
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Who was Ambroise Paré?
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- Paré was a battlefield surgeon
- Developed ligatures to seal wounds instead of using a cauterising iron
- Disproved Galen by proving the bezoar stone isn’t a treatment for poison
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Who was William Harvey?
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- Discovered the circulation of the blood, disproving Galen’s ideas
- Identified the difference between arteries and veins
- Wrote ‘An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood’
4
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What was the Great Plague of 1665?
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The last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England
5
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What was the death toll of the Great Plague of 1665?
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100000
6
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How did people try to control The Great Plague of 1665?
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Households were locked in and red crosses were painted on their doors with the words, ‘Lord have mercy upon us.’
7
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What factors affected progress in medicine during the Renaissance?
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- The Printing Press – allowed new ideas to spread easily
- Weakening Power of the Church – more focus on natural causes
- Renewed interest in Ancient Learning
- Medical drawings and anatomy books could be shared
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Why had they stopped reading Galen in the 19th century?
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- New understanding of the body proved Galen was often wrong
- Harvey’s ideas were proved correct
- Dissections and microscopes made Galen’s work outdated
