HIST 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Erasmus, Andreas Vesalius, Renaissance Revival Architecture
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Creating healthy cities: the development of western public health and sanitation in the. Blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm. Notion of bleeding people: physicians in the 1700s bled people out. Vomiting: excess of fluid in your body. Significance of the printing press: aldine press re-published works of antiquity in different translations throughout europe. Heart pumps blood to organs and back. Microorganisms in human blood cells, no idea what they do but they are discovered. New knowledge provided little insight into disease. New discoveries, yet old treatment and medicine. Exception: peruvian bark (quinine) used to treat malaria/new world diseases. Each disease has a cure it was just up to finding the right combination of plants. Few doctors prior to the prof. of medicine 1800s. Doctors losing money bc they have to travel across the county because of visits. Most had a care network of family and friends. Doctors were not very good at what they did; each town;/village had a.
