? starter activity

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? starter activity
The pictures refer to new discoveries during the
medical Renaissance (1500-1700) try to work out
what they are. ? What was the most significant?
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New ideas inventions

• New translations new ideas
• Challenges to ancient texts, e.g. Vesalius
  challenged Galen
• Improved knowledge of anatomy
• Anthony van Leuwenhoek's microscope
• Spread of ideas due to printing press
• Blood circulated around the body the heart was
  a pump
• Ligatures to seal wounds
• False limbs to replace amputated ones
• Turpentine could be used as an antiseptic

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Did the new ideas make much of a difference?
? Key words physician v barber-surgeon
predecessor obstetrics forceps
? LOs

• TBAT identify old and new ideas
• To assess their impact on medicine in the 16th
  17th centuries

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? Pair work discussion

• What would be the old ideas in medicine in the
  16th and 17th centuries?
• ?Extension. Which of our Renaissance medical
  pioneers (Vesalius, Paré and Harvey) was the most
  traditional?

Old ideas?
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Old ideas

• Theory of the Four Humours
• Bleeding
• Cauterising
• Dissection was banned
• The Church control medical schools
• Women banned from becoming physicians
• Hot oil used to seal wounds

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? Your task

• Read the extract from SHP. With a highlighter
  identify information which shows Change and in
  another Continuity in each of these areas
• Physicians
• Women healers wise women
• Paracelsus
• ?Why were people so unwilling to challenge Galen?
• ??What factors caused change?

eyebright
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Physicians

• Accepted Hippocrates theory of 4 Humours
• Studied Galen Ibn Sina
• Recommended patients stay health through diet and
  good exercise
• Studied Vesalius, Paré Harvey

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Women healers wise women

• Used herbal remedies
• Lady Grace Mildmay (1552-1620) used A New
  Herbal books by Galen Ibn Sina
• Kept records of treatments
• Men preferred not to see female healers
• Women banned from university
• Forceps invented by Peter Chamberlen (1620) could
  only be used by men
• Handbooks for midwives, e.g. The Midwives Book
  by Mrs Jane Sharp (1671)

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Paracelsus

• Believed God sent signatures about how to cure
  illnesses
• Plants which looked like illnesses could cure
  them, e.g. eyebright and orchids
• Challenged Theory of 4 Humours
• Burned books of Galen Ibn Sina
• Used chemicals minerals to treat illnesses,
  e.g. salt, sulphur mercury

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? Create a judgement line to show the extent to
which the megastars improved medicine
Rembrandt, The Anatomy lesson of Dr Tulp (1632)
What does this painting tell us about Renaissance
medicine? ?What are the problems in using it as
evidence?
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? Your task

• Write a judgement on whether the Renaissance
  megastars helped improve medicine.
• Starter sentences
• To a certain extent it could be argued that
• However, many people resisted the new ideas. For
  example, .
• In addition, women
• To sum up, Renaissance medicine .

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? Success criteria
Satisfactory Getting better Wow factor
Your use of specific technical vocabulary and specific facts from your chart notes is limited You describe some of the changes but dont say much about the continuity of old ideas You use some technical vocabulary and factual detail You describe changes and continuity, but may forget some elements such as the impact on women You confidently use technical vocabulary and factual detail, e.g. names of individuals, works, events You evaluate the change and the continuity You consider the impact, e.g. on the training of women You sum up
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? Plenary

• New ideas
• Old ideas
• Evidence of change
• Evidence of continuity
• On balance did the new outweigh the old?
• ?Extension. What factors helped or hindered the
  development of medicine in this period?

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? Homework

• Revise for a slip test on Renaissance medicine
• ?Produce a factoid on Paracelsus (1493-1541)