Approaches to prevention and treatment Flashcards

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What idea were most treatments still based on c1500–c1700?

Balancing the Four Humours — bloodletting, purging and Galen's Theory of Opposites were still used as late as 1700.

What new treatment did Sydenham encourage for ague and malaria?

Cinchona bark (quinine), recently brought from the Americas; it was successful.

Who was Andreas Vesalius and what did he publish?

An anatomist who dissected human bodies and published On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543), improving knowledge of anatomy and undermining Galen's ideas.

True or false? Vesalius's discoveries quickly changed the way patients in England were treated.

False. His work improved knowledge of anatomy, but prevention and treatment still relied on balancing the humours.

What effect did the dissolution of the monasteries (from 1536) have on hospitals in England?

Most hospitals, many of them run by the Church, were shut. Some charity-funded hospitals opened, but numbers stayed below their earlier level until the eighteenth century.

What was a pest house?

A separate building where people with an infectious disease, such as plague, were sent to be cared for away from the healthy.

How were surgeons and apothecaries trained c1500–c1700?

They trained through guilds, rising from apprentice to journeyman to master, and needed a licence to practise once trained.