Ambrose Paré

Question 1

When was he around?

Answer 1

-Renaissance
-1510-90

Question 2

Dicoveries - gunshot wounds

Answer 2

-1537 paré ran out of hot oil to put on a gunshot wound so he improvised and just used cream instead (used egg whites, rose oil and turpentine). Paré patients’ wound healed well and he wrote a book about treating wounds (1545)

Question 3

Discoveries- wounds we’re cauterised to stop bleeding

Answer 3

-Paré used Galen’s method of tying blood vessels with a ligature or thread
-He invented the ‘crow’s beak clamp’ to stop bleeding
-This was less painful, but was slower and could introduce infections. Also took longer to use on a battlefield

Question 4

Dicoveries- amputations

Answer 4

-He designed false limbs for wounded soldiers
-He included drawings of the false limbs in his books

Question 5

What was he described?

Answer 5

By clowes (a battlefield surgeon) described paré as the ‘famous surgeon master’

Question 6

How did he become well know in the sixteenth-century England?

Answer 6

Queen Elizabeth’s surgeon William Clowes made Paré’s work well know

Question 7

Short term effects

Answer 7

-Helped less people die on the battlefields

Question 8

Long term effects

Answer 8

-False limbs and sewing up are still used in modern surgery, however we now know about infections