Early Modern 1500-1800

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    Lydia Tranter

    Cards (15)

    • Andreas Vesalius
      On the Fabric of the Human Body: 1543
      Proved 300 of Galens theories wrong
      Dissected criminals
      Anatomist
    • William Harvey
      Heart pumped blood around the body
      Blood circulated the body
      Veins and arteries carried blood
      Discovered valves
      Work published in 1628.
      James 1 and Charles 1 personal doctor
      Studied at Padua
      Surgery improved because of him
    • Thomas Sydenham
      ‘The English Hippocrates’
      Identified measles and scarlet fever as two separate diseases.
      Closely observed patients
      ‘Medical Observations’: 1676
    • Great Plague 1665 -causes

      - Punishment from god
      - Astrology
      - The four humours
      - Miasma
      - Anti-semitism
      - Person to person
    • Great Plague 1665 - treatments

      - Herbal remedies
      - Transference
      - Superstition
      - Sweating
      - Laying near a fire
    • Great Plague 1665 - prevention methods

      - Buying lucky charms
      - Laying near a fire
      - Quarantine
    • Importance of the printing press
      First 1440
      Invented by Johannes Gutenberg
      Scientists could publish their work and share it across Europe.
      Church had less influence in what was printed and published.
    • Royal Society
      Formed in 1660
      Promoted science
      ’Nullius in Verba’ Take nobody’s word for it
      To share and discuss new ideas
      Charles 2nd gave them credibility with the royal seal
    • College of Physicians
      First medical college, 1518
      Dissections now legalised
      New medical equipment, microscopes and thermometers.
      Training on wards
      Study works from Vesalius and Harvey
    • Differences in treating plague
      Transference
      New herbal remedies
      Purging
      Quarantine
    • Edward Jenner
      He discovered milkmaids who caught cowpox rarely contracted smallpox.
      He inoculated James Phipps and exposed him to smallpox.
      The first successful use of vaccination
      1980 declared smallpox eradicated
    • Barber surgeons
      They were tradesmen
      They: Cut hair, pulled teeth, bloodletting, surgery and amputations
    • Doctors
      Physicians had a more scientific approach to training.
      Rich people paid for a doctor. Most people went to apothecaries, patient’s wife or the wise woman.
      Wealthy women provided charity and care
    • Superstition (Kings Evil)
      Kings Evil = scrofula
      A form of tuberculosis. Called this because people believed that the king could heal the disease.
      Scrofula = Swelling of the lymph glands
    • College of physicians
      Led by Thomas Linacre, physicians petitioned king Henry VIII to establish the college.
      Founded on 23rd September 1518