MEDICINE The Renaissance
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- Created on: 06-04-17 09:40
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- MEDICINE Renaissance
- Causes
- Religion still played a role in the cause of disease
- Miasma remained a popular idea
- Belief in the Four Humours still continued
- Individuals
- Vesalius: corrected Galen's work and made dissections acceptable
- Harvey: disproved Galen's work and discovered how blood was pumped around the body
- Sydenham encouraged a more scientific approach to research
- Prevention
- Regimen Sanitatis and staying clean
- Cleansing the air of miasma
- Praying and leading a sin-free life
- Practising everything in moderation such as alcohol and food
- Institutions
- The Church had less influence over science
- The Government had an important role during the plague
- The Royal Society allowed scientists to share and communicate ideas
- Treatment
- Herbal remedies
- Treatment was based on the Four Humours
- New chemical cures/plants and the start of modern chemistry
- Theory of transference e.g. rubbing a wart on an onion to transfer it.
- Healers
- Physicians now diagnosed illness by looking at the symptoms and carried out dissections
- Apothecaries received better training and were commonly used
- Surgeons were better qualified and carried out less dissections
- Less hospitals after the dissolution of the monasteries but care was better
- Women cared for the sick in the community using traditional remedies
- Causes
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