Renaissance Disease

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  • Created on: 01-10-19 19:16
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  • Renaissance: Disease
    • New Inventions
      • New tech like gunpowder- new wounds. Doctors found new treatments- some used new scientific methods
    • New Learning
      • Observation, hypothesis and experimentation. Reading ancient Greek and Roman books. Students to question old beliefs.
    • New Style of Art
      • New desire to show human form in more realistic detail. Studied more carefully.
    • New ideas spread quickly
      • Printing press allowed old and new books to be printed and studied quicker.
    • New Lands
      • Explorers sailors and merchants- more accurate maps. Discovery of USA showed value of new discoveries. New foods and medicine were brought back from 'New World'.
    • Quackery
      • Sold medicine to prevent, cure or treat disease but was falsely advertised and unproven. People selling it also knew it probably wouldn't work.
      • Usually contained alcohol, opium and other plant based substances- addictive?
      • Examples: 'Daffy's Elixir' and 'Turlington's balsam of life'
        • Due to King George II using them.
    • Edward Jenner
      • Sarah catches cowpox. Jenner takes pus from Sarah's hand and puts it into James Phipps' blood stream. James falls ill. Jenner take pus from smallpox patient and infects James with it. James does not catch smallpox.
        • Many doctors made profit from smallpox inoculation so they disliked findings. Snobbery against him as he was not a fashionable city doctor.
          • 1802- King George IV vaccinated- people believe if it works on him, it will work on them.
            • £10,000 grant given for more research.

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