key terms for medicine during the Renaissance

What were the consequences of the Renaissance?

• discovery of gunpowders leading to new wounds in soldiers. Doctors had to find new ways to deal with them

• Ideas of humanism

• Global exploration leading to new land so new medicine was brought back

What were the impact of the invention of the printing press?

Klwrd new ideas and medical knowledge to be spread more quickly. Knowledge was more widely available to the public to learn

How were gunshots wound treated in the army sixteenth century?

With hot oil to cauterise the wounds. It was then smeared with a cream of rose oil, egg white, and turpentine

what were Galen’s ideas about blood?

New blood was constantly made in the liver and was used as a fuel that burned up in the body. It passed from one side of the heart to the other through tiny holes.

What treatments are possible because blood circulation is understood?

Blood test, blood transfusions, heart transplants

What were some ingredients from around the world?

Rhubarb, a wonder drug from Asia. Cinchona bark from South America and opium from China. Tobacco from north America was found in many herbal remedies

What was an excellent way to keep the page away?

Smoking a pipe

What were quacks?

They pretended to have medical knowledge and sold medicine to people knowing that they don't work by playing on people's dear and uncertainty. There were no regulation for who could sell medicine

Why did people bug medicine from quacks?

They were cheaper than a doctor and the medicine would contain enough alcohol or opium to dull pain and make them feel better

What did Daffy’s Elixir include?

Brandy, rhubarb, liquorice, saffron, fennel seeds, cochineal, raisins, senna, jalap, parsley seed

What did Daffy’s Elixir claim to treat?

Gout, rheumatism, kidney stones

Continuity?

• Treatments were still based on the four humours

• Didn't know what caused diseases and thought it was miasma

• Superstitious beliefs that the king touch could cure scrofula

what did some cures to the great plague?

Bloodletting, killed all cats and dogs, used frogs, snakes and scorpions to draw out the poison, lit fires to purify the air and ward off evil spirits

Why was the great plague different to the black death?

There was a more organised approach as authorities helped to clean the streets regularly, quarantine the infected with a red cross on their door

What was believed to have ended the great plague?

The great fire of London burned down houses and sterilised the streets by burning waste. It killed a lot of rats carrying the fleas

What was the real reason why the page ended?

The rats developed a greater resistance to the disease

what changed in hospitals?

Doctors and nurses looked after patients and provided treatments. They had their own apothecaries and pharmacies to make medicine. Medical schools were attached to them to provide student doctors with experience. They were funded by wealthy individuals or charities

What were some specialist hospitals?

St Luke’s hospital in 1751 for the mentally ill, the Foumdling hospital in 1741 for orphaned children

What was the royal society?

It promoted and support scientific knowledge by sharing knowledge, approved by king Charles II in 1660.

What was the college of physicians?

Where doctors learned about Galen and received training and get given a licence

What was inoculation?

It was used to try and protect people from smallpox by inje ting a mild dose of the disease to help build resistance. Lady Monatgu popularised this in 1721