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Grades 11 and 12 - History - Senior High School - Medicine: Medical Renaissance In The Early Modern Period
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Grades 11 and 12 - History - Senior High School - Medicine: Medical Renaissance In The Early Modern Period
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1. 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?
2. To which group of medical practitioners did Pare belong?
3. Which Ancient Greek figure, famous for the oath taken by all qualifying doctors, was studied and admired during the Renaissance?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. Which medical researcher from the Low Countries studied at the University of Padua, and then became physician to the Emperor Charles V?
7. Edward Jenner, from Gloucestershire, noticed that girls working in a particular profession did not catch smallpox. Which group was this?
8. Harvey became physician to two English kings. The list of monarchs below features one of them. Which one?
9. Quacks were a familiar feature of the Early Modern period. What alternative word was used to describe those who peddled doubtful medicines and treatment?
10. What form of treatment for war wounds had Pare pioneered?