1.2a, 1.2b, and 1.2c Flashcards
Hippocrates
“The father of medicine”, established the code for physicians and the Hippocrates Oath. Urged physicians to stop attributing disease to demons and gods and to seek their natural causes.
Aristotle
One of the first to write about anatomy and physiology. Believed that disease could be the result of either supernatural OR natural causes.
Physici
Natural causes
Theologi
Supernatural causes
Metrodora
The first woman to publish a medical textbook. Her book was widely translated and used all across Greece and Rome until 1597.
Claudius Galen
Wrote the most influential ANCIENT textbook. Due to Galen not being permitted to dissect bodies, he had to guess at most human anatomy and made many incorrect deductions. Galen saw science as a method of discovery, not a body of fact.
Maimonides
Fled Egypt and spent the rest of his life as a physician to the sultan. Wrote 10 influential medical books and numerous treatises for specific diseases.
Avicenna
Combined Galen and Aristotles findings with his own and asked questions when evidence was lacking. Wrote The Cannon of Medicine which was taught in medical schools for over 500 years.
Andreas Vesalius
Broke classroom tradition and came down from the elevated chair and did dissections himself. He exposed how Galen was wrong about anatomy. Created the first accurate illustrations of anatomy.
Michael Servertus
Discovered that blood must circulate continuously around the body.
Galileo
Parented the compound microscope as a by-product of his work with telescopes.
Marcello Malpighi
The first to study cells with a compound microscope and also was the first to observe blood cells and capillaries.
Robert Hooke
Designed many kind of medical instruments and also observed that cells were filled with a juice like substance.
Antony Van Leeuwenhoek
Invented a simple microscope that could achieve much higher magnification than previous microscopes.
Spherical Aberration
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