UNIT 1/ Medicine and Treatment
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The Renaissance c1350AD - c1750
The Church
- many of the ideas of the Church continued (eg hospitals, galen, training of doctors)
- but during the Renasissance the power of the Church challenged by new inventions (the printing press and new medical knowledge) and the work of Vesalius and Harvey
Ideas about disease - similar to Roman Britain
- miasma
- four humours
- god sent disease
Ideas about disease - were there any good ideas?
- Bills of mortality during the great plague (introduced by the Lord Mayor of London)
- use of leechbooks
- doctors studied the urine
Vesalius - c1550
Challenged relgion and encouraged science
- showed how and why galen had made mistakes (200)
- showed the importance of dissection in adding to medical knowledge
- weakened the grip…
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