History: similarities between Reanissance and medieval
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- renaissance medical treatment similarities with Medieval treatments
- used old and new treatments similarities
- many doctors reluctant to accept Galens ideas wrong, similar treatments to middle ages
- blood letting and purging, doctors focused on reading books than treating patients
- docters were expensive. people used healers: apothecaries or barber surgeons
- superstition and religion were still important
- some people sold medicines that didn't work, more harm than good
- many doctors reluctant to accept Galens ideas wrong, similar treatments to middle ages
- responses to the plague similarities
- many treatments based on magic, religion and superstition. praying and fasting
- bloodletting still used probabaly made plague worse: created wounds which became infected
- thought miasma caused disease, carried posies of herbs and flowers: improve air
- improvementsin surgery
- many doctors trained at collage of physicians
- two types of surgeons: small professional surgeons, trained at university and highly paid by parents and unqualified barber surgeons
- hospitals focused on treatment and learning
- henry vii closed down many of Britains monasteries as a a result: few hospitals
- poor peoplle treated at working houses, conditions were poor
- used old and new treatments similarities
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