What caused the black death and how did the origin of the disease spread it?
The black plague spread from FLEAS ON RATS.
RATS spread the disease from place to place from getting on ships/giving the disease to people who travel to other places across seas.
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How did people in the Renaissance come up with remedies for symptoms? Give an example of what a remedy could be for a fever?
It was usually random and not very effective.
Example (Answers will vary): Ground up unicorn horns mixed with human's hair, corn and leaves would cure a fever.
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Name a few ways surgery was unsafe during the Renaissance?
Surgeons knew very little on human body so it was hard to perform surgeries properly. Tools and hands were unsanitary, giving the patient infections. Untrained people would do surgery. Unefficient techniques would be used. Lots of patients died from too much blood loss.
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Why was dissection in the Renaissance made legal?
For study purposes, because at the start of the Renaissance period, people knew very little and mostly inaccurate things about anatomy. The use of dissection helped a lot for peoples knowledge about anatomy.
200
What is the scientific name of the black death?
Type of Bubonic plague or Yersinia Pestis
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What was bloodletting?
Bloodletting is when someone tries to thin your blood by draining out blood from your veins.
200
Name at least 2 ways on how surgery in the Renaissance got better?
Dissection, Artists and writers (Like Leonardo Da Vinci), scientific method, books and articles, explorers getting information from other places, etc
300
What was each bile associated with? (Emotions)
Black Bile- Depression.
Yellow Bile- Anger.
Blood- Energy.
Phlegm- Apathy.
300
Where did the black plague start and about what percent of Europe's population was killed?
The black plague started in Asia in the 14th century.
The disease killed about 2/3's of Europe's population.
It spread all through Europe and little bits on other continents.
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Name at least 2 of the techniques doctors used in surgery on patients and on sick people in general to balance biles?
Bloodletting, leeches, astrology and superstition.
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What body part was each of the humors associate with?
Give 3 ways the black plague spread as quickly and to as many people as it did?
Trading- Ships carried rats and diseased people, and ships stopped at many ports and cities to deliver the goods.
Merchants/Travellers.
People praying on the bedsides of the ill.
Enclosed, bad hygiene areas with lots of people.
Climate (Mini ice age at the end of 13th century made Europe weaker to disease).
Fleas that were infected bit people.
ETC.
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What was the most common surgery done? (HINT: It led to lots of deaths from bleeding out during the renaissance and is still done today, but better)
C- Sections
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How did the black death have effects on lower classes?
The people of the lower classes (peasants, serfs, slaves, etc) that survived could demand higher rewards for there laborious because now the higher classes and landlords had less people working for them.