Renaissance medicine revision
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- Created on: 29-05-18 14:26
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- Rennaissance medicine
- prevention of disease
- cleaning road - remove miasma
- bathing was less common due to syphillis
- prayer
- Regimen sanitatis
- Key people
- Sydenham
- said that doctors should note symptoms of disease
- made detailed descriptions of disease e.g. scarlet fever
- believed in letting the body fight illness by itself
- Harvey
- The heart pumps blood around the body!
- proved Galen was wrong about holes in the septum
- groundwork for future discovery
- The heart pumps blood around the body!
- Vesalius
- Human jaw had 1 bone, NOT 2
- breastbone had 3 parts, NOT 7
- Holes in septum do not exist
- breastbone had 3 parts, NOT 7
- 'fabric of the human body' helped gain knowledge of anatomy
- stole bodys to dissect them
- Human jaw had 1 bone, NOT 2
- Sydenham
- cause of disease
- God/sin
- supernatural
- 4 humours - mainly just referred to
- miasma
- case study
- THE GREAT PLAGUE 1665
- caused by: sin, astrology, miasma
- treated by: prayer, cutting buboes, transference, herbal remedies
- prevented by: plague water, pomander, quarantine, killing stray animals, plague doctors
- Largest change= more governmental intervention
- THE GREAT PLAGUE 1665
- treatment of disease
- bleeding & purging
- 'royal touch' from the king as he is god's representative
- transference e.g rubbing objects on warts/boils to transfer it
- herbal remedies e.g. honey to kill bacteria
- hospital care
- only wounded and ill went to hospitals
- cared for until better
- got a visit from a doctor 2 a day
- got medication
- only wounded and ill went to hospitals
- prevention of disease
- 1500-1700
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