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Medicine 1500-1700 (Ideas: a scientific approach (Thomas Sydenham (worked…
Medicine 1500-1700
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Continuity in prevention, treatment and care
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Community care
- most people who became ill were cared for at home, usually by a female relative
- physicians were still too expensive for the majority
- members of the community helped with advice and remedies - some were payed for their services
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Hospitals
some free, charity-funded hospitals were set up but wasn't until late 1700s that the number returned to pre-dissolution levels
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1536, dissolution of the monasteries in England by Henry VIII caused most hospitals to close
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were treating more sick people and were being used less by travellers and pilgrims - most had their own apothecary and physicians
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The Great Plague, 1665
Treatments
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it was thought that people could sweat disease out, so sufferers were wrapped up in thick blankets and put by a fire
Government Action
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every day, carts collected the dead who were then buried in deep mass graves
a household was boarded into its home for 28 days or taken to the pest house if a member caught the plague
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William Harvey
The importance of Harvey
proved that some of Galen's theories were wrong, bringing into question Galen's other theories
improved knowledge about how the body worked and passed this knowledge on. By 1700 his work was being taught in medical schools
as a royal physician, Harvey's work gained publicity and credibility, and inspired others to find out more
his scientific methods of observation and use of dissection had brought results, and so were copied by others
his discoveries left many unanswered questions, which encouraged further experiments
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- studied medicine at Cambridge, then Padua
- became a lecturer of anatomy in London at the College of Physicians
- was one of James I's doctors
- carried out public dissections
- taught the importance of doctors observing and recording patients' symptoms, rather than relying on textbooks for diagnosis and treatments
- discovered the process of blood circulation
Transmission of ideas
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The Royal Society
aimed to further scientific understanding by carrying out and recording the results of experiments, sharing scientific knowledge and encouraging new theories and ideas
from 1665 - published a journal called Philosophical Transactions, in which scientists could share their work and ideas
King Charles II granted a Royal Charter to the society. He was very interested in science and his approval of the society helped it to gain credibility