6. The Renaissance Medicine

1. Clear picture in anatomy book

1. Mass Produce of medical book
   1. More widely read
      1. Ideas spread quickly

1. It was trendy to look at how the world/body worked

1. More awareness that they could stop it spreading
2. Did more to contain the Plague than the Middle Ages
3. Their efforts were ht and miss (mostly miss)
4. Didn’t know it was spread by rats or about germs
5. Sent by God
   1. For their sins
6. Bad air
7. Planets
8. Imbalance of the four humours

1. SAME METHOD AS THE BLACK DEATH

   Annotations:

   • More Information on teh Middle Ages Mind-map
2. Searchers
   1. Checked dead bodies if they died of the plague
3. Watchmen
   1. Stood outside plague victims houses to stop people going in or
      1. GOOD IDEA - It quarantines victims
4. Rakers
   1. Cleared away the rubbish
5. Victim Bodies of the plague were taken at night and buried 6ft deep in mass graves outside cities
6. Dogs and Cats were killed – thought to spread the plague
   1. BAD IDEA - Rats increased!

1. Challenged Galen’s ideas
   1. Encouraged dissections of bodies
2. Student got close to SEE the dissection and what he was describing
3. Produce a Book using skilled artist for accurate drawing
   1. The fabric of the Human Body – 1543
4. He proved Galen was wrong about the kidney and the jaw

1. Proved that the heart pumped blood around the body through experiments
2. Proved that Galen was wrong
   1. Galen said that the blood was used up like fuel
      1. By measuring how much blood was in the body and that it wasn’t used up

1. A French Army Surgeon
2. Didn’t like burning wound to stop them bleeding and used ligatures (Silk threads to tie up wounds)
3. Used old Roman ointment to treat gunshot wounds instead of boiling oil
   1. It worked better, less painful and less infection
4. Wrote a book
   1. A treatise on wounds

Annotations:

• More information in the Middle Ages Medicine Mind-map