Renaissance medicine (history)

Edward Jenner

Found the vaccination for small pox

What disease did Edward Jenner use for the small pox cure?

Cow pox

What sparked Jenner’s discovery?

Milkmaids had no small pox.

Why didn’t the milkmaids have small pox?

They had had cow pox in the past.

How did Jenner’s discovery help the future generations?

1840- vaccinations made free to infants leading to the elimination of many diseases.

What happened when Jenner first came out with his idea?

He was criticised by those who sold inoculations as it would take their money. Many people also thought it was morally wrong.

What did Jenner make the first of?

A vaccine.

Inoculation

Weaker version of the same illness to make the immune system stronger.

Vaccination 

A specific pathogen or different illness to make the immune system stronger.

What ingredient came from Asia.

Rhubarb

What ingredient came from South America?

Chinchona bark

What ingredient came from China

Opium

What ingredient came from North America?

Tobacco

Nicholas Culpeper

Wrote the complete herbal

What did Nicholas Culpeper do that was different?

He would treat people for free and examine his patients.

Pare

A French barber surgeon

What did Pare do?

Made an ointment that stopped cauterisation.

Lady Johana

Cured nosebleeds with ground vinegar paper that would be sniffed.

John Hunter

Scottish surgeon and anatomist.

What did john hunter believe in?

Careful observation.

How did John Hunter help with education?

Set up teaching hospitals and trained many young surgeons.

What major school did John Hunter set up?

Royal college of surgeons.

Harvey

Made a theory on circulation

Who did Harvey challenge?

Galen

Quackery

Where fraudulent remedies were sold for financial gain.

What did most remedies in Quakery’’s contain?

Opium and alcohol.

Versalius

Flemish anatomist and physician.

How did Vesalius learn about anatomy?

Human dissections.

What was Versaliu’s book for?

Training manual for barber surgeons.

What did Vesalius’s research do?

His research disproved Galen.

What was the thought cause of the great plague?

God, astronomy and miasma.

What actually caused the great plague?

A bacterium transmitted by fleas on rats.

What were the treatments for the great plague?

Sniffing vinegar, leeches, animals on body to draw out poison, move away, red cross on the door.

How did the great plague end?

Rats develpoed resistance.