Medieval and Renaissance medicine
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- Medieval and Renaissance Medicine
- Alchemy
- Alchemy was trying to create potions to help people live longer
- The main goals of Alchemy was to try and create the elixir of life and to produce a philosopher's stone
- We don't talk about the mistake box
- Though alchemists didn't make the elixir of life or a philosopher's stone, they did make hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, potash and sodium carbonate and were able to identify arsenic, antimony and bismuth.
- The four humours
- This idea dominated medical ideas for over 2000 years.
- The four humours were: blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile
- If someone was ill they would try and restore the "balance of humours in the body.
- Renaissance art
- In the Renaissance Painters like Michelangelo and Da Vinci wanted to paint people in as much detail as possible
- So they would dissect bodies, even though it was banned by the church, to learn more about anatomy
- Alchemy
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