Renaissance 1500-1700
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- Renaissance c1500-1700
- Change
- Cause of disease
- Less belief in supernatural /religous /astrology causes
- Reduced influence of the church
- scientific approach to diagnosing illness
- new rational explainations for disease suggested
- Work for physicians and scientists
- Thomas Sydenham :English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae
- Physicians stopped using astrology charts for dignosis and treatments
- Improved knowlede of digestion meant physicians stopped using urine charts-not a good indicator
- Physicians carried out more observations and examinations on patients
- Cause of disease
- Continuity
- Cause of disease
- Miasma
- The Theory of the four humours (however by 1700 very few physicians belived in it)
- Prevention and treatment
- Cleanliness(P)
- Traditional herbal remedies(T)
- Healthy living (P)
- Supertitions and prayers(T)
- Bleeding and purging (T)
- Sin-free life
- Lack of change : *Ideas were slow tro be accepted *no direct use of preventio/treatment *discoveries didn't improve ubnderstanding of case of disease
- Cause of disease
- Transmissin of ideas
- Printing press
- Invented 1440 by Gutenburg.... by 1500 there were hundreds across europe
- Ideas could spread faster....many tex could be produced in a short amount of time
- Reduced churches ccontrol of ideas : could no longer prevent publication of ideas
- The Royal Society
- A group that disagreed with Galen's teaching and decided to experiments
- King Charles II attended meetings..this gave them credibility
- first meetings : london : 1645
- 1655: started publishing journal: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS
- Printing press
- VESALIUS
- Improved understanding of the human body
- proved some of Galen's work was incorrect - ecouraged people to question Galen
- encouraged dissections
- work widely published in England and throughout europe
- publishe "the fabric of the human body - inccluded detailed illustraitions of the human body .
- CASE STUDY: The Great plague 1665
- WILLIAM HARVEY
- 1587-1657
- discovered process of blood circulation
- Arteries and veibs are in the same
- used versaliuses theory that blood flows towards the heart ...contidicted Galen
- Influenced by new technology
- importance
- proved some of Galen's theories wrong
- improved knowlegde on how the body works
- by 1700 his work was being taught in medical schools
- As a royal physician his work got publicity and credibility and inspired others to find out more
- Because his methods of observation and use of dissection were successful people copied them
- left many inanswered queststions which encouraged further experiments
- Change
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