Early Modern Medicine

• When was the Great Plague?

  1665
• What did the government do during the great plague?

  They stopped all public entertainment and restricted dirty animals
• What did Harvey do?

  Discovered that blood circulated around the body and disapproved of Galen's ideas
• What did Pare do?

  He was a barber surgeon who used egg/turpentine/ rose oil at war, he used ligatures and created false limbs
• What did Vesalius do?

  He did human dissections, discovered that the jaw is one bone, and disapproved of Galen
• What did Hunter do?

  He created the Royal College of Surgeons, taught Edward Jenner, collected specimens and gave himself diseases
• What was the change in hospitals?

  After 1530, they were fewer & donated by the rich. They also now had doctors
• What was similar to hospitals in the medieval era?

  It was a mix of care not cure however they now focussed on all illnesses
• What were the town conditions?

  They still had bad water supply and did not have good living conditions
• What did Jenner do?

  He developed the smallpox vaccine by discovering that milkmaids were less likely to get smallpox, because of cowpox
• What did Pare do at war?

  He treated wounded men
• How did war influence Hunter?

  Hunter learnt and taught more about gunshot wounds
• What were the three new main discoveries during the Renaissance?

  The microscope

  The printing press

  Vaccinations
• How was communication developed during the Renaissance?

  Artists drew more accurate paintings and books were translated into other languages
• Why was the Renaissance a changing period?

  They started studying corpses, learning how the muscles worked, doing human dissections and challenging ideas