Renaissance Medicine

Renaissance and medieval change

Some scientists rejected the 4 humour theory Sydenham because it could not explain epidemics like great plague

less belief in the supernatural

church’s power declined with the reformation- reducing influence less people believed in God

new scientific thinking - direct observation over books

no belief in the urine charts

dissections

Renaissance and Medieval continuity causes

The 4 humours - King Charles ii diagnosed using them

Astrology

Religion

Miasma

Medical thinking

Renaissance and Medieval continuity treatments

Blood letting Purging Herbal remedies regimen sanitatis removal of bad ai barber surgeons

New Beliefs/ influences dates and thing

Animalcules

Printing press 1440

Royal society founded in 1660

transference - illness transferred to something else

microscope made by

Robert Hooke

animalcules

who came up with this?

little animals are the cause of disease . Microscopes were used but the images were not clear

Van Leeuwenhoek part of royal society

Printing press

problem?

Johan Guttenberg spread medical info quicker decline in Church’s power

able to publish books critical of Galen

not many could read or write

Royal Society

1660 scientific body for scientists to talk to each other about their new ideas

motto - Nullius in verba “ - take no ones word for it

Supported by King Charles - gave it high status

Thomas Sydenham

moved medicine away from Galen and Hippocrates

humanism

observed closely a patients illness and treated the disease causing it

Identified Measles was different to scarlet fever '

Medical observations 1676 - Book

suggested airy bedrooms cold drinks for malaria

Doctors trained at the …

College of Physicians 1518 - read books about Galen and studied Medical developments

What were there more of in the Renaissance that improved medicine?

New weapons like cannons that meant doctors had to treat injuries quickly and find new treatments

Bad for medicine?

but good?

1530s King Henry VIII closed down monasteries - dissolution of monasteries which led to the closure of many hospitals

replaced by free hospital physicians

Vesalius

problem

Lecturer in the university of Padua

dissected criminals body

found about 300 mistakes Galen made because he practised on animals

Jawbone 1 not 2

wrote “fabric of the human body”

encouraged others to base work on dissection

Physicians angry, didn’t improve health or treatment

William Harvey

Born in 1578 worked at the Royal college of Physicians

saw a water pump

dissected corpses and cold blooded animals with a slow heart beat to observe the movement of blood.

Proved Galen’s theory wrong that blood was burned up around the body

His theory proved blood blood was passed from arteries to veins through capillaries

Blood pumped around the body by the heart and not used up

encouraged others to experiment on actual bodies

Hospital care

infections disease not allowed in

lunatic institution St mary’s

The Great Plague

1665 recurrence of the Black death

100000 dead in London

spread by the bites of fleas from rats

Greta Plague Treatment

wearing Lucky charms

Prayer

Blood Letting

Carrying flowers

strapping live chicken around swelling

Great Plague Prevention

didn’t know cause councils tried to quarantine victims

people avoided contact

dead bodies buried in mass caves

cats and dogs killed

Overview Renaissance

Life expectancy 40 more medical knowledge