Renaissance medicine

• Renaissance time period 


  1500-1700
• Form of communication for medicine 


  Printing press
• 3 main individuals

  Andreas Vesalius (anatomy) , William Harvey ( heart and blood circulation) & Thomas Sydenham ( observation and other ideas)
• Printing press impact 


  More people could read and write, new ideas spread quickly and books could be mass produced at an affordable price
• Why impact of medical discoveries was so small

  Lack of quality medical instruments, still huge gaps in knowledge, general public still believed in the four humours theory
• Treatments and prevention

  . Transference

  . Alchemy