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Did the Medical Renaissance Improve Heath and Treatments? I think the medical Renaissance mainly did improve health and treatments. Lady Grace Mildmay, Richard Wiseman and James Woodfare all contributed to improving health and treatments. The plague started many new ideas about how it started and how to prevent it but there were still many old ideas. Lady Grace Mildmay lived from 1552-1620. She still had many old ideas from Galen who was still the basis of medical treatments and she believed in his theory that illness was caused by imbalances of the four humours. She also followed some of the work of Paracelus who attacked Galen's ideas about the four humours. She had many new ideas of her own, many that did improve health. She challenged Galen and tried new treatments. Many of which were based on herbs. She treated Jaundice, smallpox, fevers, skin diseases, cramp, melancholy and many other diseases. Richard Wiseman lived...

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