medicine

• four humours


  rejected by sydenham and paracelsus as thye couldnt explain great plague
• supernatrual


  fewer belived in supernatrual
• religion


  with declining power of the church less people belived that god caused disease as a punishment.
• astrology


  jupiter and saturn aligning was blamed for the plague
• miasma


  idea still continued. was thought to be one of the main causes of disease
• Royal Society


  founded in 1660.

  enourged debate and challenge old ideas and search for new thoeries

  used microspces

  first ever blood transufusion

  printed scientific books
• Invention of the printing press


  allowed new ideas to be spread

  - was discovered in the 1470s

  -allowed the copying of books to be much easier

  -many different books could be translated
• Thomas Sydenham


  English physician who stressed the importance of observing and recording symptoms, rather than blaming illness on an imbalance of humours. Known as the "English Hippocrates".

  
  

  also aurgued that there were species of diseases
• treatment - continuity


  bleeding and purging

  religion

  herbal remedies
• treatment - change


  chemical cures

  transference
• prevention of disease


  practicing staying clean and healthy to avoid illness.

  bathing became less popular do to spreading

  more effort to remove miasma so sewage was removed and rubbing was picked up from the street

  moderartion was introduced so less drinking less fatty foods ect
• impact of the dissolousion of the monostries


  since most hospitals were attached to the chruch many struggled to stay open
• hopital care - change


  more focus on treatment of the sick

  pox house, plauge houses ect
• hospital care - continiuty


  physiscians were expensive so many continued to die

  women played an important role in care of the sick
• apothecaries and surgeons


  cheaper alternative to doctors

  gained more experience
• physiscions


  trained at universitys and became well educated due to the invention of the printing press
• versalliuis


  challenged galens ideas

  grave robber to disect bodies to understand human anatomy

  released "fabric of the human body"

  created labbled drawings of the human body
• importance of versallius


  his books were printed and widley spread

  encouraged other doctors to disect human bodies to educate themselves and challenge old ideas
• william harvey


  Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart

  proved versalius right
• impact of william harvey

  proved galen wrong

  his discoveries were vital to improvemnets in surgerys and transfusions

  however doctors disliked his ideas
• great plague in 1665

  15% of london died

  similar ideas on what caused the plague to the black death

  however they belived in passing it on and realised that it could be spread
• treatments for the plague

  quack doctors - untrained individuals who sold medical cures but were very popular

  herbal remedies

  bleeding and purging

  transference
• prevention of the plauge

  government action - theateres closed, almost 100,000 dogs and cats were slaughtered as they were blamed for the spread of the plauge

  smoking tobacco

  deiting and fasting
• progress


  although medical knowledge was advanced and their was a new desire for change they were no closer to finding the origins of desies