Renaissance Disease
Renaissance medicine maintained the Medieval path, and represented little change in the treatment and identification of disease.
The Four Humours and a mix of natural and supernatural cures predominate. A few ideas were resurrected from the Ancient World as the old ideas were challenged in the rebirth of learning. An example of how little had changed, in the 1660s King Charles II was still touching people to cure them of Scofula, and when he fell ill in 1685, he was purged, made to vomit and given laxatives.
Most advances in this era were made in anatomy, and understanding how the body functioned.
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