Lesson 5: Renaissance Medicine Re-cap

Part 1: Re-cap knowledge

Watch this clip to refresh your knowledge on Renaissance Medicine: BBC Teach Renaissance medicine clip

Review your knowledge (use neat book, revision guides):1. Name three doctors who came up with new theories about the cause of disease in the

Renaissance. 2. Why was Thomas Sydenham important to medical progress in the 17th century? 3. What was invented in around 1440 that helped the spread of scientific knowledge? 4. What was the name of the Royal Society’s science journal? 5. What is iatrochemistry?6. Why did people take fewer baths in the 1500s? 7. Roughly how many mistakes did Vesalius find in the works of Galen? 8. Where were plague victims sent for treatment? 9. Who proved that blood circulated within the body? 10. List two ways in which people attempted to prevent the spread of the Great Plague?

Part 2: challenge

Everyone must do:1. Create a mnemonic to help you remember what people thought

caused the Great Plague – Astrology, God, Miasma, Other People.2. What did Quack doctors do during the Great Plague?

Stretch for Grade 7+1. How did change in attitudes in society and the role of the Church

lead to changes in the way the plague was tackled between 1348 and 1665? HINT: in 1665 there was more focus on prevention than there had been before.

2. Can you identify three changes and three continuities between the case studies of the Black Death in 1348 and the Great Plague of 1665?

Complete this in neat all 4 questions

Part 3: Exam question practice

Explain why there was continuity in the way disease was treated in the period c1500-c1700.

You may use the following information in your answer:

The Great Plague

Attitudes in society

You must also use information of your own. 12 marks.

Stretch activity for those aiming for 8+. Complete in neat book.