Medicine Through Time - Renaissance

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Who discovered that the heart worked like a pump?
William Harvey
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Who developed the concept of diseases having 'species'?
Thomas Sydenham
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Who was the first person to suggest that humans and other mammals reproduced via the fertilisation of an egg and sperm?
William Harvey
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Which physician started to treat diseases RATHER than their symptoms?
Thomas Sydenham
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Who invented the microscope?
Robert Hooke
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What year was the Great Plague?
1665
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Physicians now realised that ____ was not directly related to a person's health, and stopped diagnosing with it
Urine
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Which invention made it possible to spread new ideas more accurately and quickly
Printing Press
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When was the printing press invented?
1400s
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Which monarch gave the Royal Charter to the Royal Society?
Charles II
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What year was the royal society founded?
1660
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What was transference?
A treatment
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How was transference believed to have worked?
The illness/disease could be transferred to something else
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Some people began to move away from herbal remedies and so began to move towards what?
Chemical cures
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What was regimen santatis?
Changing your surroundings to prevent disease
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Removing miasama was a method of ____.
Prevention
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How did people clean themselves in the Renaissance period?
Rub themselves down with linen
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How was syphilis spread?
Sexually
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Due to the decline in Church power, what was made legal?
dissection
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How many mistakes in Galen's original work in anatomy did Andreas Vesalius find?
300
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Who proved that blood wasn't made in the liver?
William Harvey
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Where were people with infectious diseases sent to?
pesthouses
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