important ideas/discoveries

• people rejected 4 humours
• 1546


  disease was spread through seeds in the air
• 1628 - Harvey


  blood circulated the body
• digestive system was understood
• urine = no longer used to diagnose illness
• new microscopes
• 1676 - Sydenham


  observation medica
• 1683 - 


  more powerful microscopes
• 4 humours still used for ordinary people - as they understood
• doctors couldn't prove causes of disease - microscopes weren't powerful enough
• miasma s
• church declined in power
• astrology = less popular
• people still wore charms