[English medicine in the Tudor times]

In the Tudor times in England medicine was influenced by Renaissance and ideas of humanism. Medical humanists were searching for and discovering genuine ancient manuscripts in the interest of establishing a "pure" classical terminology and achieving an elegant Latin style uncontaminated by Arab intermediaries. The theory of disease, diagnosis and treatment were all dominated by Galen and his theory of humours. Advances in anatomy and physiology did not bring about any change to the status quo. Apart from university-trained doctors, medical skills were offered by surgeons, apothecaries and various quacks, empirics and mountebanks. There was a selection of medical books translated into and written in the vernacular English they could choose from, apart from books written in Latin and translated into it.