Attitudes : Seeking improvement Attitudes : Respect for tradition Institution : Government Institution : Church

● People started to think for
themselves.
● This meant they experimented
with the new products from
the New World.
● People also started to
challenge old ideas after doing
their own dissection or
research.
● The gained experience on how
to treat wounds from war.
● Would need a license to
continue with their practise.
● Chemical cures were being used
- iatrochemistry.
● People still believed herbal
remedies could be used as
treatments.
● Use of new herbal remedies
like theriaca.
● Use of new materials from the
New World.
● Women still used remedies
that they were taught.
● Would help people who couldn’t
afford treatment from
physicians.
● Women were prosecuted for
using their methods without a
license by London College of
Physicians.
● Ordered people to be locked up
and isolated during the Great
Plague.
● People were ordered to keep
their distance from anyone
during this time
● Mass meeting, which included
forms of entertainment, was
banned.
● The people who died at the
time had to be buried 6 ft
under the ground to help stop
the spread.
● Households had to sweep the
street outside their home 2
times a day.
● The Church lost influence and
power during this time.
● Meant dissection could happen
as there wasn’t any control
over it.
● Church weakened because of
the creation of protestantism.
● People started to rely on the
Church less and started to
think for themselves.
● People still went back to
religious ways in times of
crisis.
● People were starting to believe
that God didn’t send disease as
a punishment.

Science & Technology Individuals Communication

● Change of what was taught in
medical schools.
● Iatrochemistry and anatomy
was part of the curriculum.
● The invention of the
microscope.
● Old medical books were less
reliable.
● Printing press meant that new
information in books were
easily spread everywhere.
● Started to disprove Galen and
Hippocrates’ theories.
● Doctors did their own
dissection, ot just surgeons.
● William Harvey discovered that
your blood flows in one continuous
direction through the entire of
your body.
● Versalius made the study of
anatomy more popular.
● Published the book The Fabric of
the Human Body.
● Did dissection using dead bodies
of criminals and from graves.
● Thomas Sydenham claimed the
theory of humours was wrong.
● Observe patients and learn not
from books.
● Treat illnesses individually, laid
foundation for science in the 18th
Century.
● The Royal Society was formed
in 1660.
● This allowed scientists to get
together and share their
theories together.
● They could also collaborate
with each other and come up
with more new ideas.
● It was supported by the King
to find more rational
explanations.
● Encouraged using different
types of experiments to help
justify each new theory.
● Published scientific journal,
continues till this day.