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Medival medicine
People trougnt it came from deamonds, being a bad person caused death and sickness.
Agriculture and farming was the main industry.
Primary sector, Second Sector, tertiary Sector, 4 sector
Primary sector: people who do farming, fishing and agriculture also work with raw materials.
Second sector: people who work in industries to transform of raw materials. (Factories, Manufacturies)
Tertiary sector: commerces or business which provides a service.
4 sector: any job or service related to technology.
Vocabulary
1200-1400
Raw materials: come from nature
Procurement: sourcing
Commers: commercious
Sewage system: water service and Higine.
History of medicine
Very religious society
Tithe- money given to the church each month.
Malnutrition- illness caused by lack of food.
Famine- food shortage
Miracle
Desease related to sin’s
Leprosy
Leper colonies: the people were separated from others and malgenarise them from society.
It leads to paralysis if not treated.
Caused by mycobacterium laprae.
Paralysis caused by bacteria and other things.
What effects? Affects skin, nerves and mucosal surfaces also paralytic.
Astrology
Supernatural explanation for disease-study of the stars and explanation of disease.
Ancient Greeks
Hippocrates
The founding father of modern medicine.
The 4 humours a further theory that sinks to give medical explanation to illness and disease.
Balance of the body for medicine.
Blood/phlegm/black blue/yellow bile
Romas
Galen= first doctor of Roman Empire/ through his observation he wrote +350 books.
Not being able to dissect because people believed there was a unity with physical body and the soul.
Galen also developed the theory of opposites, he recognised that the balance on the body was very important.
Vocabulary
Sin: when you do something that you are not supposed to do.
Leprosy: chronic infectious disease that rats and dirty places caused and caused the face skin and body skin to fall
of.
Barber surgeon: barbers who could provide small surgeries.
Vivisection: what Galen used to cut people up. They were very bad people with no souls.
Miasma: bad air that was believed to be filled with harmful fumes swamps, corpses and other reacting matter.
Soul: fitted with church
Vocabulary
Bubonic plague: the real name of the Black Death
Scourge:a person or thing that causes great suffering.
Bubbes: swelling in parts of the body with glands.
Glands: part of our lymphatic system (to keep us safe and healthy what kills the bacteria.
Motivated: to encourage someone to do something.
Exacerbated: making a bad situation worse.
Underlying: rude cause of something.
Triggered: problems that you cause.
Catalyst: something causes a change.
Renaissance
Started to see shift in mindset
Also known as age on enlightment
Development in basic ideas
Discovery of the world around them
Humanism/ art/ society/ music= this areas changed a lot
Italy is the center of the “boom” in the renaissance
Da Vinci was very important
A lot of the thinking of the ancient Greeks was proved that it wasn’t true
They still believed in miasma
Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa and the last supper
Michelangelo: David (sculpture) and the Sistine chapel- Raphael (school of Athens)
Humanism: literature and philosophy
Humanism
Humanism was a key intellectual movement of the renaissance that focused on the potential and the achievements
of humans.
It emphasised the study of subjects such as literature, philosophy and history (the humanities) rather than just
religious topics.
love of learning, a new interest in classical scholars and the belief that human beings could make up their own
minds when it came to discovering the truth.
Art+ artistic
The renaissance is famous for its advancements, including the used of perspective to crate depth and scope
(realism).
Science + innovation
The renaissance was a time of great scientific discovery and innovation. Figures like galileo galilei and Nicholas
copernicle challenged traditional views of the universe leading to eventual scientific revolution.
Inventions like the printing press by Johames Gutenberg around 1440 greatly increased the spread of knowledge.
Literature + philosophy
Literature saw the creation of timeless works by authors like Dante Alighieri
(The Divine Comedy), Geoffrey Charcer (The Canterburg Tales), and william shakespeare (plays and sonnets).
Philosophers like Niccolò Machiarelli (The Prince) and Erasmus (In praise of folly) explored new ideas about
politics, ethics and society.
Exploration
The renaissance was also a period of exploration, with explorers like Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Cama and
Ferdinand Magellan expanding European knowledge of the world.
IMPORTANT PEOPLE
Paracelsus: Swiss scientist and medical profesor.
4 humours rejected and disease seen as something separated from the body.
New chemical treatment being developed- alchemy
Girolamo fracastoror: Italian physician
1546 on contagion- disease caused by spread of seeds in the air.
William Harvey: English scientists
1628 new theory published which suggested that blood circulate around the body instead of being made in liver.
(Galen)
Vocabulary
Renaissance or rebirth- revival of interest in art and culture
Philosophy: thinking about how we think
Depth and scope- Sistine chapel