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questions about medicine - renaissance
renaissance idea about medicine
rebirth in french, it was when old art techniques came back and people started challenging the church
many did believe but due to the rise of humanism a lot of people started rejecting the idea of everything happening because of god
astrology was less popular but people still wore charms in epidemics to ward of disease.
they believed miasma in winter was oil in the rubbish and dunghills but when it became warmer it turned into a gas .
he didn't follow medicine books and preferred to observe the patient.
the allignment of the planets was believed to have effect on people due to the day they were born
miasma was still widely believed in, beliefs with the supernatural changed a little .
the theory of the four humours had been discredited but was still followed by a lot of people
he was able to see bacteria, he called them "animalcules"
other ideas
radish and saffron were used for red rashes, other things used red clothes, food and wine
medical chemistry was the name for chemists that were looking for treatments made from metal, salts and minerals
regimen sanitatis was still believed in because it was about cleanliness
Andreas Vesalius made the book "on the fabrics of the human body" which consisted of diagrams of the human anatomy
William Harvey was a Physician that discovered all veins and arteries were all part of one system
Harvey also corrected Vesalius by saying that the veins only carried blood and the heart acted as a pump.
Vesalius corrected galen mulitple times, some examples of this is when he discovered the lower jaw was 1 part not 2 and the vena cava did not lead to the liver.
a pest house was a hospital that specialised in one disease
renaissance hospitals and medical professionals
education for apothecaries increased because of new ingredients from the new world, they now needed a license
physicians were still university trained, they were encouraged to dissect corpses and they could access medical textbooks easier
hospital care decreased in 1536 following the dissolution of the monasteries
public meetings were banned, theatres were closed, streets were cleaned and infected households were quarantined.
case study :
the great plague happened in the renaisance, not the black death ,which happened in the medieval era