Renaisance Factors

• Government:

  • Royal society created in 1645 to discuss progress and use new tech.
• Religion:

  • God was still used as treatment but not as much as in medieval period.
  • Reformation caused the lessesning of religions impact.
  • Still influences people so people remained believing Galen and Hippocrates.
• Chance / luck:

  • Pare ran out of of hot oil which made him have to make his new ointment (egg yolkes, rose oil and turpentine).
• Education:

  • More diverse things to stduy about (studied off of work of Vessalius and Harvey).
  • Training was more emphasies on a scientific approach.
  • Barber surgeons and wise women would still learn by watching and not using new knowledge.
• Attitude (arrogance):

  • People still prefered cheaper and more familiar remedies.
  • Thomas Hobbs, 'I would rather take advice from an experianced wise woman than a new physiscian'.
• Science and Tech:

  • Discoveries in other areas of science like astronomy.
  • Encouraged docters to seek new knowledge for medicine.
  • Printing press helped the spread of new ideas.
• Individuals:

  • Thomas Sydenham
  • Versallius
  • Pare
  • Harvey