1.  starter activity
The pictures refer to new discoveries during the medical Renaissance ( ) try to work out what they are.  What was the most significant?

2. New ideas & inventions New translations & new ideas
Challenges to ancient texts, e.g. Vesalius challenged Galen
Improved knowledge of anatomy
Anthony van Leuwenhoek's microscope
Spread of ideas due to printing press
Blood circulated around the body & the heart was a pump
Ligatures to seal wounds
False limbs to replace amputated ones
Turpentine could be used as an antiseptic

3. Did the new ideas make much of a difference?
 Key words: physician v barber-surgeon predecessor obstetrics forceps
Did the new ideas make much of a difference?
 LOs
TBAT identify old and new ideas
To assess their impact on medicine in the 16th & 17th centuries

4.  Pair work discussion
What would be the old ideas in medicine in the 16th and 17th centuries?
Extension. Which of our Renaissance medical pioneers (Vesalius, Paré and Harvey) was the most traditional?
Old ideas?

5. Old ideas Theory of the Four Humours Bleeding Cauterising
Dissection was banned
The Church control medical schools
Women banned from becoming physicians
Hot oil used to seal wounds

6.  Your task
Read the extract from SHP. With a highlighter identify information which shows ‘Change’ and in another ‘Continuity’ in each of these areas
Physicians
Women healers & wise women
Paracelsus
Why were people so unwilling to challenge Galen?
What factors caused change?
eyebright

7. Physicians Accepted Hippocrates’ theory of 4 Humours
Studied Galen & Ibn Sina
Recommended patients stay health through diet and good exercise
Studied Vesalius, Paré & Harvey

8. Women healers & wise women
Used herbal remedies
Lady Grace Mildmay ( ) used ‘A New Herbal’ & books by Galen & Ibn Sina
Kept records of treatments
Men preferred not to see female healers
Women banned from university
Forceps invented by Peter Chamberlen (1620) could only be used by men
Handbooks for midwives, e.g. ‘The Midwives’ Book’ by Mrs Jane Sharp (1671)

9. Paracelsus Believed God sent ‘signatures’ about how to cure illnesses
Plants which looked like illnesses could cure them, e.g. ‘eyebright’ and orchids
Challenged Theory of 4 Humours
Burned books of Galen & Ibn Sina
Used chemicals & minerals to treat illnesses, e.g. salt, sulphur & mercury

10.  Create a judgement line to show the extent to which the megastars improved medicine
Rembrandt, ‘The Anatomy lesson of Dr Tulp’ (1632) What does this painting tell us about Renaissance medicine? What are the problems in using it as evidence?

11.  Your task
Write a judgement on whether the Renaissance megastars helped improve medicine.
Starter sentences:
To a certain extent it could be argued that …
However, many people resisted the new ideas. For example, ….
In addition, women …
To sum up, Renaissance medicine ….

12.  Success criteria Satisfactory Getting better Wow factor
Your use of specific technical vocabulary and specific facts from your chart & notes is limited
You describe some of the changes but don’t say much about the continuity of old ideas
You use some technical vocabulary and factual detail
You describe changes and continuity, but may forget some elements such as the impact on women
You confidently use technical vocabulary and factual detail, e.g. names of individuals, works, events
You evaluate the change and the continuity
You consider the impact, e.g. on the training of women
You sum up

13.  Plenary New ideas Old ideas Evidence of change
Evidence of continuity
On balance did the new outweigh the old?
Extension. What factors helped or hindered the development of medicine in this period?

14.  Homework Revise for a slip test on Renaissance medicine
Produce a factoid on Paracelsus ( )