Renaissance

• What role did women play in medicine at this time?

  sold simple herbal remedies that cured particular ailments or purged the body
• How were treatments in medieval times and the Renaissance similar?

  both eras used bleeding, purging and herbal remedies
• How did treatment in the Renaissance differ from medieval times?

  • new herbal remedies appeared as new plants from the New World were discovered
  • new focus on chemical cures (latrochemistry)
  • surgeons received more formal training
• Years of the Renaissance?

  1500 - 1700