Renaissance Ideas About The Causes of Disease And illness in The Renaissance

Humanism

• Humanism Is the theory of discovering the truth of the world around them
• People started to reject the view of christanity that God was responsible for everything around them.

Thomas Sydenham

• His nickname was 'The english Hippocrates'
• He refused to rely on medical books when making a diagnosis 
• He encouraged doctors to try and treat all the symtoms instead of each indivivaul one 
• He was very important in moving medicine away from Glaen and hippocrates 

Printing Press

• Invented by John Gutenburg
• Founded in !440
• It enabled medical infromation to spread further and quicker.
• It was a big reason for the decline of the church as physicans were now able to ciritise Galen

Royal society

• It was founded in london in 1660
• It allowed fellow sceintists to study one anothers work
• The Society also sponsered the sceintist and assisted them with the publication of their ideas