Medicine and Public Health in the Renaissance

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  • Created on: 28-05-13 13:12
Why were people's attitudes changing in the Renaissance?
They had more money, better education, interest in the Greeks, more enquiry, new translations and Galen was proved to have made mistakes
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What change had there been to public health since the Middle Ages?
Not much, during the plague they did quarantine people though and hospitals were improving.
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Why hadn't public health improved?
People didn't think it was the governments duty, lack of money, germ theory hadn't been published yet, not many taxes were collected, taxes were spent on war, ordinary people didn't have the vote.
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Hospitals in the Renaissance were...
...getting better, although there was still prayer there was more practical treatment being carried out and simply surgery too, most hospitals still didn't admit those with infectious diseases.
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What were treatments like in the Renaissance?
Herbal remedies, apothecaries, quack doctor, bleeding and new ingredients from abroad.
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What is the significance of Vesalius?
First to prove Galen was wrong, he developed understanding of anatomy and encouraged dissection.
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What factor helped Versalius?
Changing attitudes, looking at Galen's work, the printing press, artists interested in anatomy and easier to dissect.
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What is the significance of William Harvey?
Proved Galen wrong, led to heart transplants and blood transfusions in the future and developed our understanding of the human body.
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What factors helped Harvey?
Water pumps in London, changing attitudes, did experiments and demonstrations to prove his ideas and read work of earlier scientists.
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