c1500-c1700: The Renaissance (Edexcel GCSE History): Flashcards

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Renaissance medical changes time period

c1500-c1700

Top of medical hierarchy in Renaissance

Physicians

Bottom of Renaissance medical hierarchy

Apothecaries

Training method for apothecaries & surgeons

Guild apprenticeship systems

New requirement to practice medicine (Renaissance)

Licensing after proper training

Where physicians studied in Renaissance

Universities

Tech that spread medical knowledge in Renaissance

Printing press

Vesalius's role in Padua, Italy

Surgery professor

Year Vesalius published his anatomy book

1543

Title of Vesalius's 1543 book

On the Fabric of the Human Body

What Vesalius based anatomy on

Direct observation & evidence

Ancient physician Vesalius proved wrong

Galen

Vesalius's discovery about human jaw

Single-piece (not two-part as Galen claimed)

Key method Vesalius used to study anatomy

Human dissections

What Vesalius encouraged others to do

Question traditional theories & investigate

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