| Question | Answer |
| What does Renaissance mean? | rebirth
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What was the Reformation and how did it affect medical progress? | challenge to Catholic Church, more people willing to question Galen
| How are the factors of art and printing linked? | accurate drawings printed in books
| Who were three key medical pioneers of the Renaissance? | Vesalius, Harvey & Pare
| Give an example of one of Galen’s mistakes corrected by Vesalius. | jawbone one bone not two
| What was cautery? | using a hot iron or boiling oil to treat a wound
| What was in Paré’s ointment? | egg yolk, rose oil, turpentine
| Which animals did Harvey use in his experiments and why? | frogs, cold-blooded, slow heartbeat
| What did people think caused disease during the Renaissance? (3 examples) | God, miasma, four humours
| How did people treat disease during the Renaissance? (2 examples) | bleeding, purging
| What were the symptoms of smallpox? | fever, pus
| What was the technique of inoculation? | mild dose of smallpox to prevent serious dose
| Who developed the use of inoculation after visiting Turkey? | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
| What was one of the dangers of inoculation? | might get a severe dose of smallpox
| Who was Edward Jenner? | doctor from Gloucestershire
| What happened to Edward Jenner when he was eight years old? | inoculated against smallpox
| What was the story involving milkmaids? | cowpox prevented smallpox
| Why did Jenner call his discovery ‘vaccination’? | vacca = Latin for cow
| What happened in 1852? | vaccination became compulsory
| Why did some people oppose vaccination? | Jenner did not know why it worked
| Who published his germ theory in 1861? | Louis Pasteur |
