Renaissance Medicine (c.1500–1700)
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Causes of disease
Ideas began changing.
Andreas Vesalius
Improved knowledge of anatomy.
William Harvey
Discovered blood circulation (1628
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The great plague (1665)
Responses included:
Quarantine
Plague houses
Killing animals
Still believed in miasma.
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Surgery
Improved thanks to:
Ambroise Paré
Used ointment instead of boiling oil.
Still painful because:
No anaesthetic
No antiseptics
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Vaccines
Edward Jenner (1796)
Discovered:
Cowpox could protect against smallpox.
This was the first vaccine.
