Renaissance Period
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- Created on: 01-06-18 16:44
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- The Renaissance c1500-c1700
- Ideas: Scientific approch
- Changed ideas
- fewer people believed in supernatural or religious cause of disease
- scientific approach to diagnosing disease
- new explanation e.g. seeds in air spread disease
- Continued ideas
- miasma
- Four Humours but by 1700 v few physicians believed in it
- Church had less influence
- new religious ideas challenged Catholic Church authority
- people still v religious but looking for new ideas about cause of disease
- CC couldn't promote ideas about science
- new religious ideas challenged Catholic Church authority
- Physicians + Scientists
- fewer people believed astrology so stopped using astrology chart to diagnose + decide timings
- stopped using urine charts- progress in digestion
- more direct obvs/examina-tions of patient
- Thomas Sydenham
- book which outlined his theories in 1676
- doctor in London 1660/70s
- didn't rely on medical books to diagnose
- obzs + record symps- detail
- disease had nothing to do with nature of person who had it
- Didn't treat individual symps
- English Hippocrates
- Changed ideas
- Transmission of ideas
- printing press
- 1440
- lots of printing in 1500
- exact copies of text quickly produced- reduce Church control of deciding which books to publish
- shared over a wide range more effectively
- Royal Society
- aim- further scientific understanding by doing experiment s + recording results
- share science knowledge, encourage new theories + ideas
- sponsored scientist to enable research
- 1665
- journal where scientists could share ideas
- doctors + scientists study, build, challenge each other's research
- theories confirmed or dismissed + news spread quickly
- doctors + scientists study, build, challenge each other's research
- printing press
- Ideas: Scientific approch
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