Renaissance Medicine

The Humours

100

What are the four humours?

What are blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm.

200

An excess of this humour leads to heart palpitations and constipation.

What is black bile.

300

What is a treatment for an imbalance of blood

Bloodletting / Lancing

400

This humour is cold and moist and produced by the lungs.

What is phlegm.

500

Who invented the Theory of the 4 humours

Hippocrates

Treatment

100

If a physician was not available, who would a patient go to?

What is a surgeon, dentist, and/or barber.

200

How long would you need to Quarantine during the great Plague

40 days and 40 nights 

300

Who would patients go to for medicine?

Who are an apothecary or an herbalist.

400

What animal does the mask of a Great Plague Physician resemble?

What is a bird.

500

What did people do to 'get rid of their sins' as a form of prevention?

What is self-flagellation - Whip themselves.

Important People

100

Drew and studied the anatomy including the brain, blood vessels, and heart. 'Fabric of the Human Body

Andreas Vesalius

200

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek invented this to see something he called 'animacules' 

Microscope

300

This person used observation instead of books to improve medical knowledge 

Thomas Sydenham

400

Harvey got inspiration for his blood circulation from...

Fire Engine Pump

500

Invented the Printing Press

Johannes Gutenberg

Miscellaneous

100

What disease killed more people than anything else during the Medieval and Renaissance?

What is the Bubonic Plague

200

What influential group was adamantly against dissection?

What is the Catholic Church.

300

Arguably the most important machine invented for spreading ideas about medicine

What is the printing press.

400

What dates was the Renaissance?

1500-1700

500

Used to stop or reduce pain that contains extremely potent drugs

What is laudanum