Continuity and changes in medicine during the renaissance

Continuity:

• Even educated people from Universities still believed in Hippocratic theories; that illness was cause due to an imbalance of the four humours.
• They still used uroscopy.
• People were reluctant to accept Harvey’s ideas as this would mean Galen was wrong. Therefore they still followed his teaching.
• Cost of employment meant that regulations and rules to combat illness could not be followed effectively. I.e. frequent outbreaks of plague after 1348.
• There were still “Quacks” people trying to exploit others by claiming to have cures for illnesses.
• Galen and Islamic doctor Ibn Sina theories were still read amongst many people, and still believed to be true.
• There…