Renaissance Medicine

6. The Renaissance Medicine

1. Example of change

   • Art improved
     • Clear picture in anatomy book
   • Printing Press develop
     • Mass Produce of medical book
       • More widely read
         • Ideas spread quickly
   • Catholic Church control on medicine declined
   • Some doctors proved Galen wrong
   • Science become more important at this time
     • It was trendy to look at how the world/body worked
   • Rakers, Watchmen ect in the plague

2. Example of continuity

   • Galen was studied for 100 years
   • Monasteries kept Roman ideas on Public Health alive
   • No idea what caused disease

3. What did they think caused diseases?

   • THE PLAGUE – Returned in 1665 No one knows what caused it:
     • More awareness that they could stop it spreading
     • Did more to contain the Plague than the Middle Ages
     • Their efforts were ht and miss (mostly miss)
     • Didn’t know it was spread by rats or about germs
     • Sented by God
       • For their sins
     • Bad air
     • Planets
     • Imbalance of the four humours

4. Treatment/Prevention

   • THE PLAGUE 1665
     • SAME METHOD AS THE BLACK DEATH
       • More Information on teh Middle Ages Mind-map
     • Searchers
       • Checked dead bodies if they died of the plague
     • Watchmen
       • Stood outside plague victims houses to stop people going in or
         • GOOD IDEA - It quarantines victims
     • Rakers
       • Cleared away the rubbish
     • Victim Bodies of the plague were taken at night and buried 6ft deep in mass graves outside cities
     • Dogs and Cats were killed – thought to spread the plague
       • BAD IDEA - Rats increased!

5. Key ideas

   • Studenst encouraged to copy Romans and Greeks ideas
   • Re-examine what the Greeks and Romans had dome and come up with new ideas

6. Key figures

   • Vesalius
     • Challenged Galen’s ideas
       • Encouraged dissections of bodies
     • Student got close to SEE the dissection and what he was describing
     • Produce a Book using skilled artist for accurate drawing
       • The fabric of the Human Body – 1543
     • He proved Galen was wrong about the kidney and the jaw
   • Harvey
     • Proved that the heart pumped blood around the body through experiments
     • Proved that Galen was wrong
       • Galen said that the blood was used up like fuel
         • By measuring how much blood was in the body and that it wasn’t used up
   • Pare
     • A French Army Surgeon
     • Didn’t like burning wound to stop them bleeding and used ligatures (Silk threads to tie up wounds)
     • Used old Roman ointment to treat gunshot wounds instead of boiling oil
       • It worked better, less painful and less infection
     • Wrote a book
       • A treatise on wounds

7. Who Treated illness?

   • Same as the Middle Ages
     • More information in the Middle Ages Medicine Mind-map