Renaissance Medicine

What was the name of the war surgeon who discovered silk ligatures?

• Harvey

• Vesalius

• Pare

• Sydenham

What was the name of the physician who discovered that the heart pumps blood around the body?

• Pare

• Harvey

• Vesalius

• Sydenham

What was the name of the physician who discovered more about human anatomy?

• Pare

• Harvey

• Vesalius

• Sydenham

What was the name of the physician who discovered that you needed to observe a patients symptoms before treating their illness?

• Pare

• Harvey

• Vesalius

• Sydenham

Who proved Galen's theory about invisible holes in the heart wrong?

• Pare

• Harvey

• Vesalius

• Sydenham

Which of these was not an idea about the cause of illness in the Renaissance?

• Miasma

• Planets

• Imbalanced humours

• Germs

True or false? Urine charts were still used in the Renaissance?

• True

• False

What was cauterisation?

• Stitching a wound

• Burning a wound

• Cleaning a wound

• Leaving a wound

Why did Pare's discovery make infection worse?

• He put mud in the wound to treat it

• He used insects to eat infected flesh

• He did not wash his hands

• He did not treat the wound itself

Did the influence of the church increase or decline in the Renaissance?

• Increase

• Decline