Medicine Module 2 1500-1700

Renaissance travelling barbers and tooth-pullers who sold 'cure-all' potions were called ....?

How many Londoners died in the Great Plague of 1665?

The study of chemical treatments for disease was called...

During the 16th century, how many editions of Galen's works were published?

What were the Government's actions to prevent the Plague spreading?

What was the highest death rate in one week for the Great Plague?

Who created the printing press in 1440?

What were pest houses?

The Government fined people for not removing sewage in the streets - why?

Why was the printing press important to the advancement of medicine?

Which king set back the development of hospitals by closing down monasteries in 1536?

What were boarders?

What was the name of officials who decided the cause of death in Renaissance towns?

Who suggested that illness was caused by external factors and not the 4 humours?

What was a Royal Charter?

Which town in Derbyshire was quarantined to stop the spread of the plague?

What did Renaissance plague doctors wear?

Who corrected over 300 of Galen's mistakes in 'On the Fabric of the Human Body'? #micdrop

Single sheets of printed diagrams for medical students who couldn't afford a book were called..

William Harvey's theories were published in 1628, but when were they taught in universities?

What did the red cross painted on someone's doorway mean in 1665?

Who was cured of typhoid fever in 1657 by an alchemical cure?

What was a stomach bug that caused severe diarrhea?

Why were the masks of plague doctors shaped like birds?

Using a microscope, who described the bacteria as 'animacules'?

Which of these medieval explanations for the Plague continued in 1665?

What did the Royal Society publish in 1665?

Fracastor said that seeds in the air spread disease in his book 'On Contagion' in which year?

Why did dissection become legal in the Renaissance period?

Which branch of learning in the Renaissance rejected supernatural explanations for disease?

What was a journeyman?

Which of Galen's medical theories did William Harvey prove wrong?

At what medical school did both Vesalius and William Harvey study?

What was the Reformation?

What were country doctors?

Which of these were new plants discovered in the Renaissance period, used to cure illness?

Why did people take fewer baths in the 1500s?

Which king gave the Royal Society a Royal Charter in 1662 to support their work?

Which of these was a new, Renaissance treatment for the Plague?

Which Renaissance scientists tried to turn materials into gold?

The first recorded observation of bacteria with powerful microscopes was in what year?

In 1628, who proved that blood circulated around the body?

How did the Royal Society make medical knowledge available to a wider audience?

Which of these medieval medics were still treating people in the Renaissance period?

What was a guild?

The theory that you could be cured of a disease by transferring it to something else was.....

How did quarantine change between the medieval and Renaissance period?

Which of these was thought to be a way to prevent the Plague?

What year was the Royal Society formed in?

Which of these medieval cures were STILL being used in the Renaissance period?