1. Who treated the sick in the Middle Ages?

2. How many did you get? Doctors Wisemen / women Piss Prophets?
Priests / Monks / Nuns

3. Lesson Objectives
To identify who treated the sick in the Renaissance and evaluate whether this shows change or continuity
To consider the role of Paracelsus in the development of understanding of disease and infection during the Renaissance
To consider which factors affected understanding of disease and infection in the Renaissance

4. Who treated the sick in the Renaissance?
Who would people visit if they were sick?
Where would they go?
P.72 – 74 in the green books will help you
Does it make a difference how wealthy people were?

5. Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim
But you can call him Paracelsus
Swiss Doctor and taught in German not Latin
Began lectures by burning the books of Galen
Said Galen and Hippocrates were wrong
Said that illness was caused by chemicals in the body going wrong or attacking it
Treatment should be chemical – destroy chemicals with chemicals
Very religious – believed his ideas were inspired by God

6. Over all was there change or continuity in treatments of disease during the Renaissance?
What changed?
What factors led to these changes?
What stayed the same?