Renaissance approaches to treatment and prevention

12 questions

1. Which term refers to a physical feeling or problem that shows that you have a particular illness?
2. What invention allowed books to be published more quickly, cheaply and accurately during the Renaissance period?
3. Which group, founded in England in 1660, encouraged scientific learning through experimentation and regular journals which shared new ideas and works?
4. Which physician was the first to identify the difference between measles and scarlet fever?
5. What proportion of books on astrology published in England between 1485 and 1707 were written by physicians?
6. What was observed for the first time by using a microscope in the 1670s?
7. ___ medicines were often fake but marketed as cure-alls.
8. How many people received the Royal Touch between 1660 and 1685?
9. What disease was mercury used as a treatment for?
10. What was the purpose of pest houses?
11. Which of the following are humoural treatments?
12. Which statement is most accurate?

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