Renaissance
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- Created on: 07-11-22 17:47
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- Renaissance
- Change
- The Printing Press- 1440 Gutenberg
- spreading ideas
- Easier to critique theories
- PhilosophicalTransaction- the royal society's journal-
- Allowed for peer review
- The Printing Press- 1440 Gutenberg
- Continuity
- Still used old methods (e.g. bloodletting)
- Europe was still very religious and so doctors till believed the supernatural could cause illness
- The Royal touch
- Wise woman and apothecaries still cured disease
- Thomas Sydenham
- Treating patients by observing outcomes rather than learning from books
- Classified diseased based on the symptoms he had observed
- Hospitals
- Introduction of specialist wards (e.g. maternity ward)
- Poor people looked after in workhouses
- Most treatment was still based on the 4 humours but superstition was becoming less pop
- More public hospitals in 1700s leading to more patients
- Vesalius
- Used dissections on criminals to prove Galen's theories wrong
- Fabric of the Human Body- 1543
- William Harvey
- Thought blood circulated around the body instead of Galen's idea of it getting used up and made in the liver
- Showed blood could only flow one way
- His ideas weren't excepted at first and bloodletting continued
- Change
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