Renaissance Period (2 gen 1500 anni – 1 gen 1700 anni)

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1500 - 1700

The 'renaissance' is the 're-birth' of old ideas from ancient Greece and Rome. People began to question and challenge assumptions but a lot of things stayed the same.

Change in medical thinking:
- Gradually throughout the renaissance, fewer people believed in the supernatural and religious causes of disease
- New explanations regarding the causes of diseases spread (inc. seeds spreading disease through the air)
- A reduction of control from the church means increased scientific thinking

Continuity in medical thinking:
- Miasma remained the no.1 theory for causing disease
- The four humours continued to be an accepted cause of disease although many physicians didn't believe in it by 1700

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