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What was Renaissance medicine like? (TREATMENT (Bleeding and purging,…
What was Renaissance medicine like?
HEALERS
Barber surgeons
King
Apothecaries
Monastery upto 1530's
Physicians
Hospitals
Plague doctors
CAUSES
Movement of the planets
Miasma
God sent disease as punishment
Imbalance of the humours
Rotting waste
TREATMENT
Bleeding and purging
Prayer
Charms worn
Herbs and honey
Quinine for malaria
Tobacco
King's touch for scrofula
Culpepper's herbs
Sydenham observe symptoms and have a good diet
PREVENTION
Herbs
Coins soaked in vinegar
Remove victims to plague pit
Ban sale of rotten
Burn clothing of plague victims
Good diet and nutrition
Clean streets every 2 days
Prayer and fasting
Tobacco
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Printing press 1470's
Microscopes
Blood transfusions
Harvey- circulation of blood
Vesalius (anatomy)
Sydenham (observe symptons/food + nutrition)
Royal society
Church loss of influence
Luke Leach