Early modern medicine

Question 1

Contributions of Versalius

Answer 1

1) professor of surgery and anatomy
2) carried out his own dissections
3) believed anatomy was key to understanding the human body

Question 2

Contributions of Pare

Answer 2

1) apprenticed as a barber surgeon
2) learned lots of skills as an army surgeon
3) used talents methods of ligatures to seals wounds
4) considered one of the ‘fathers of modern surgery’

Question 3

What did Harvey discover

Answer 3

That blood pumped around the body in a circulation

Showed the heart was the centre of the body - contradictory to the belief of Galen that the liver was the centre

Question 4

Cons of Harvey’s discoveries

Answer 4

He was unable to see the capillaries which the blood moved through

Question 5

Sydenham

Answer 5

Known as ‘English Hippocrates’

Believed in close observation and monitoring the symptoms of diseases (scientific method)

Famous for recognising the symptoms of scarlet fever

Criticised for ‘quakery’

Dismissed the use of dissections and Harveys discoveries