Renaissance medicine Overview

What happened to you if someone in your household had the plague?

• You were quarantined for 40 days
• You were allowed to leave the city
• You had to walk through the streets whipping yourself
• You had to go to church

What change was there in care for contagious diseases?

• there were specialist hospitals
• hospitals refused to take contagious patients
• no change
• stewes were built

What institution was set up to help develop scientific discovery?

• Royal Society
• King Charles II
• Padua University
• Royal Charter

Which individual inspired others to study anatomy?

• Vesalius

• Sydenham

• Harvey

• Pare

What does secular mean?

• religion becomes less important
• religion becomes more important
• medicine becomes less important
• medicine becomes more important

What does miasma mean?

• disease spread through bad air
• disease spread through good smells
• tiny bacteria
• things that need to be balanced

What impact did the discovery of the 'New World' have on medicine?

• new herbal remedies became available
• no impact
• American doctors were really good
• there was more cholera

Give a continuity in community care

• women looked after the sick
• all people went to a physician
• people went to a hospital
• people asked advice in a chemist

What was a fugtivie sheet?

• pictures of anatomy
• pictures of criminals
• pictures of the four humours
• pictures of barber surgeons

What does transference mean?

• illness or disease would be spread to something else
• Bad air spread disease
• tiny bacteria
• way to prevent disease