Medical Progress Made By The End Of The Renaissance

Medical Progress Made By The End Of The Renaissance

What's the Renaissance? Well the Renaissance is a time of great

intellectual, scientific and cultural development, in our case we are

looking at The Medical Renaissance which was from 1500 - 1650 and in

this assessment we are going to look at diseases, treatments, doctors,

technology and new discoveries and by the end of this piece of

writing, I will have answered the question ' What Medical Progress Had

Been Made By The End Of The Renaissance?'

In the Medical Renaissance many people did not know what caused

disease. Most of what they believed in was basically what people also

believed about 350 years ago. This is because many people believed in

tradition. Although in tradition some things were right, like when

Galen proved that the brain controls the body and not the heart, it

could also be wrong some times, like when he said the jaw was made up

of 2 bones, but this didn't stop people sticking with Galen. In fact

many physicians studied for years all about Galen's discoveries. But

still people were getting ill. Other theories about what caused

disease were the Devil, because God was punishing them. Many believed

that the poisonous fumes and bad air, unbalanced humours and even the

Planet Alignments were to blame for illness.

The treatments for a lot of diseases were really based on what you

believed in. For example if you believed that God is punishing you,

all you would do too get well would be to pray. But some of them still

show signs of tradition, like bleeding and leeches this shows that

many people still believed in Hippocrates' theory of the four humours.

Many also be...

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...rt that may have help with

understanding the body but not with public health. Paré I think was

the closest to helping the health system because help made his own

remedy to bullet wounds and it was better that the one before he also

came up with idea that instead of using the red hot iron, he would use

ligature and sew up the wound at the arteries. This helped but the

only problem with it was that because they didn't have antiseptic in

that period of time, the wound would get infected and the patient

would die of gangrene and others diseases. It was in the last 75 years

that I think the Medical Renaissance was starting to change the health

of the public for the better. People started to do proper experiments,

more and more people started to question and challenge tradition and

attitudes started to change for the better.