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What does renaissance |
Rebirth |
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Which ancient civilisations did people in the renaissance admire. How might this affect medicine |
The romans Ancient greeks Led to the renewed faith in the theory of the four humours and treatment by opposites |
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How did artists woodcutters and the printing press allow developments in medical knowledge to take place |
Artists like Michelangelo revolutionised painting this led to the body being studied in more detail and was connected to improved knowledge Printing press led to spread of new ideas |
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What did Columbus and Copernicus discover |
Columbus discovered America and brought new medicines back from new world Copernicus formulated a model of the universe and put sun at the centre and not earth |
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Where was vesalius from and when did he live what was he a professor of? |
From Belgium 1514-1564 Professor of surgery at Padua in Italy |
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Name Vesalius book and how did he use artists |
The fabric of the human body And used artists to illustrate his book |
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How was Vesalius able to show Galen had made mistakes give an example of a mistake Vesalius corrected |
Proved Galen was wrong about the jaw and how it was one single bone and he dissected human bodies |
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Who was Pare nationality dates book |
French surgeon 1510-1590 The works of surgery |
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What was cauterisation |
Where blood vessels were sealed using boiling oil to burn off ends using hot iron |
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How did chance lead to Pare making a new discovery on the treatment of gunshot wounds what was his digestive |
Pare ran out of oil in panic he used a mixture of egg yolk oil of roses and turpentine it worked better than oil patient healed better after |
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How did pare pioneer the use of ligatures |
He invented ligature to tie of ends of blood vessels to stop them bleeding |
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Pare ideas were right but his treatment were not very successful due to lack of antiseptics Explain why not |
Ligatures brought infection into the wound |
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Who was Harvey Nationality dates book |
English physician 1578-1657 On the motion of the heart and blood in animals |
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Harvey believed the heart worked as a what |
Pump |
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How did pare prove blood circulated |
by dissection of animals |
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Did Harvey's ideas stop the practice of blood letting |
No his ideas were considered eccentric |
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Who was paracelsus |
Was a german physician born in Germany and Disagreed with Galen over four humours and thought disease attacks on the body were caused from the outside devised mineral remedies to help cure disease |
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The renaissance led to many new discoveries but not to new cures why no what did people still not know |
They did not know what caused disease Did not know about germs Some of the medical work was still theoretical |
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When was the great plague of London |
1665-66 |
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Give two reasons people gave at the time to explain the plague Are there any similar/different from ideas of the back death 300 years earlier |
Both though the position and movement of the planets Punishment from God Bad smells |
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What measurements dod the London authorities take to try to control the plague |
Red crosses on the doors of houses which had disease Beggars were executed Alehouses and coffee houses were closed |
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Which factor was the most important during the renaissance Religion or technology
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Technology Printing press led to spread of ideas all Pare Vesalius and Harvey had books New pumps made which had valves and got people like Harvey thinking |
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Which factor was most important during the renaissance War or science |
Science Pare Harvey and Vesalius used experiments to prove check or try their ideas |
