Renaissance Flashcards
What causes of disease and infection did they believe in the Renaissance?
Four humours
Paracelsus
God
Spontaneous generation
What did they use for treatment of disease and infection in the Renaissance?
Uroscopy and astrology Bleeding and purging Herbs Bozoar stone Kings touch - heal scrofula Signatures \+ travel became better so treatment and knowledge could be brought back by discoveries
What did Ambroise Pare do?
SURGERY AND ANATOMY
Learnt surgery as an apprentice army surgeon
Came up with mixture of egg yolks, oil of roses and turpentine by chance as ran out of oil for treating gunshot wounds
Ligatures - silk threads tied around blood vessels to seal wounds instead of painful cauterisation
Invented false limbs
What did Andreas Vesalius do?
SURGERY AND ANATOMY
Wrote fabric of the human bod, included intricate diagrams and drawings
Proved Galen wrong - jaw bone is one bone not two, breast bone has 3 parts, no invisible holes in septum of the heart
Encouraged doctors to dissect to learn
What did William Harvey do?
SURGERY AND ANATOMY
Discovered blood circulation, disproving galen
Proved blood pumped around the body - by dissecting human bodies
- blood has one way system
- calculating amount of blood
Didn’t discover capillaries
Identified difference between arteries and veins
Describe public health in the Renaissance
Plague continues form 14th century Communicable disease Quarantine Cleaned streets Red Cross on door Disinfecting Cancelled large gatherings Government taking more responsibility Warfare took resources Population increase meant more strain on available clean water supplies and sewage disposal systems.
What are the key factors from the Renaissance?
War - pare ointment and false limbs
Government - took more responsibility
Religion and superstition - reformation, signatures, astronomy, prayer, power of church decreased so now able to challenge Galen
Science and technology - false limbs, obstetric forceps, herbs, ligatures, blood circulation, basic microscope, printing press, improved machinery
Key individuals
When was the Renaissance period?
1450AD-1700AD ish
Describe the great plague of 1665.
One of the worst reappearances of the Black Death.
Death toll in London around 100,000 people
Red crosses painted on doors with words “Lord have mercy upon us”.
Carts roamed streets collecting dead victims.
People realised disease was contagious but still didn’t understand germs caused disease.
Great fire of London in 1666 sterilised large parts of London killing plague bacteria.
New buildings, streets and pavements had to be built, everything then cleaner and so much healthier place to live with less chance of catching disease.
Government influenced ph here by taking more responsibility
Who was Paracelsus?
German physician
Challenged Galen
