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During the Renaissance many women in the medical profession were nuns.
Medicine: Medical Renaissance In The Early Modern Period
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In senior high school, History students will examine the world of medicine and the advancements that have been made over time. The Renaissance, the early part of the modern era, is one period that will be looked at.
1 .
To which group of medical practitioners did Pare belong?
The Guild of Medical Practitioners
The College of Physicians
The Royal Guild of Physicians
The Guild of Barber Surgeons
Pare was able to spread his discoveries through his membership of this community
2 .
Scrofula, a skin disease that was believed to be curable by contact with an anointed monarch, could be treated with more orthodox remedies if the "Royal Touch" failed. What was the usual alternative treatment?
Bandaging
Herbal remedies
Burning of the skin
Scraping the loose skin
This was a serious dermatological condition, for which traditional treatments continued to be used
3 .
It was very difficult for women to break into medicine, especially as universities were barred to them. What one role from this list of four could women undertake?
Midwife
Medical porter
Pharmacist
Almoner
Many women working in medicine were nuns, devoted to healing the sick
4 .
Harvey became physician to two English kings. The list of monarchs below features one of them. Which one?
Henry VII
James I
Henry VIII
Charles II
Royal patronage was, for a surgeon or physician, truly a feather in his cap
5 .
Which Ancient Greek figure, famous for the oath taken by all qualifying doctors, was studied and admired during the Renaissance?
Hippocrates
Galen
Pericles
Socrates
In the oath, aspiring medics pledge that they will do everything possible to save life
6 .
What form of treatment for war wounds had Pare pioneered?
Cauterisation with boiling oil
Ligating arteries following amputation
Amputation followed by herbal remedies on the stump
Sucking the remaining gunpowder poison from the stump, then bandaging
Pare specialized in military medicine, particularly during the Italian Wars
7 .
Quacks were a familiar feature of the Early Modern period. What alternative word was used to describe those who peddled doubtful medicines and treatment?
Fraudsters
Charlatans
Witch doctors
Dupers
These characters were unlikely to have gone to university
8 .
Which medical researcher from the Low Countries studied at the University of Padua, and then became physician to the Emperor Charles V?
Pare
Vesalius
Harvey
Jenner
He was also keen on dissection, and left his carefully assembled skeleton to the University of Basel
9 .
Edward Jenner, from Gloucestershire, noticed that girls working in a particular profession did not catch smallpox. Which group was this?
Shepherdesses
Grooms
Dairy maids
Cattle herds
Jenner was intrigued by their immunity to infection, and eventually he found out what caused it
10 .
William Harvey, famous for his discovery of the circulation of the blood, was associated with a major London teaching hospital when he had finished his university studies. Which hospital was this?
Guy's
St. Bartholomew's
St. Thomas's
Chelsea
Here Harvey conducted further research at the center of government and patronage
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