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Renaissance Medicine

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which 'A' related to new 'chemical cures'?

a)

Alchemy

b)

Anatomy

c)

Animalcules

2.

Which 'A' is the study how the human body works?

a)

Alchemy

b)

Anatomy

c)

Animalcules

3.

Which 'A' was the name for newly observed germs?

a)

Alchemy

b)

Anatomy

c)

Animalcules

4.

Which invention played a large part in the decline of the Church's influence in society?

(a)  

5.

Where were many physicians trained in anatomy and the scientific approach to medicine?

a)

University of Cambridge

b)

University of Paris

c)

University of Madrid

d)

University of Padua

6.

Which medical idea didn't change at all throughout this period?

a)

Anatomy

b)

Miasma

c)

Supernatural ideas about causes

d)

Theory of the four humours

7.

Who said that physicians should examine their patients and take detailed case notes?

a)

Harvey

b)

Royal Society

c)

Sydenham

d)

Vesalius

8.

Who helped spread new ideas and knowledge about science through publishing books, journals and holding meetings?

a)

Harvey

b)

Royal Society

c)

Sydenham

d)

Vesalius

9.

Who discovered that the blood circulated round the body, and wasn't generated in the liver, disproving Galen?

a)

Harvey

b)

Royal Society

c)

Sydenham

d)

Vesalius

10.

How many of Galen's mistakes about human anatomy did Vesalius correct?

a)

Over 10

b)

Over 50

c)

Over 300

d)

Over 1000

11.

Henry VIII impacted care for the sick through the (a)   of the monasteries.

12.

What was a pest house?

a)

A place to treat people with minor illness

b)

A place to treat specific infectious disease such as leprosy

c)

A place to treat rats and fleas

d)

A place to treat criminals

13.

Tick all ways that the Great Plague was the same as the Black Death

a)

People prayed for cure

b)

The government enforced quarantines

c)

People used herbs and flowers to prevent and treat it

d)

The government sent inspectors out to find infected people

e)

People turned to lucky charms

14.

Tick ways that the Great Plague was different from the Black Death

a)

The government enforced quarantines

b)

The government killed cats and dogs

c)

People used herbs and flowers to prevent and treat it

d)

Large public gatherings were banned

e)

People believed it was a punishment from God