Renaissance

• Thomas sydenhams book 


  observations medicae 1676
• Thomas sydenham

  • physicians should record patients and take notes
• The royal society

  • founded in 1660
  • printed scientists books
  • translated foreign books
• Development of printing press 


  1439
• prevention of disease renaissance

  • regimin sanitais
  • sweet smelling herbs
  • prayer
  • charms
• treatment of disease renaissance

  • chemical cures
  • transference
  • bleeding
  • purging
  • religious
  • supernatural
  • herbal remedies
• renaissance healers

  • apothecaries
  • surgeons
  • physicians
• Hospitals renaissance

  • gave good diet
  • visit from physician
  • medication
• dissolution of monasteries 


  meant that church run hospitals were demolished and charity run were set up that focused on care
• Andreas vesalius books

  • 1537 six anatomical tables
  • 1543 Fabric of the human body
• Andreas Versailus


  Proved galens ideas wrong by using dissection to show the human body
• William Harvey book


  1628 An anatomical account of the motion of the heart and blood
• William Harvey 


  proved galens blood theory was wrong proved blood circulation from the heart that pumped around the body
• The great plauge 


  1665
• Treatment of great plauge

  • quack doctors
  • bleeding
  • purging
  • herbal remedies
  • transference
• Ideas on cause of great plague

  • astrology
  • god
  • miasma
  • 4 humours
  • human to human
• Prevention of the great plague

  • public meetings banned
  • sweet smelling herbs burnt
  • dogs and cats slaughtered
  • draw red cross on door of those effected
  • quarantined sick for 28 days
  • dead collected daily
• Life expectancy renaissance 


  40
• Renaissance


  1500-1700