Early Modern Medicine. Flashcards
How did the renaissance affect medicine?
There were New interests in classical Greek and Roman times influencing the developments in medicine.
Why was Pare significant?
Pare was a surgeon who made a ointment out of rose oil,egg white and turpentine to treat gunshot wounds on soldiers after he ram out of oil one day. This ointment treated wounds better than burning oil did.
He wrote a book about this.
He also improved the treatments of amputations.
He also designed and developed false limbs for amputees.
However
His ideas were resisted by doctors who saw him of lower status.
His ideas took time for acceptance.
How was vesalius significant?
He was also a surgeon who performed dissection on criminals who had been executed.
He performed lectures to students studying medicine.
He realised that galens ideas about anatomy were wrong.
His findings encouraged others to question galen’s ideas.
He believed that dissections were important
However
Vesalius was critised for saying taken was wrong.
His work did not lead to medical cures it did not have an immediate effect on diagnosis or treatment.
Doctors still did not the causes of illnesses and effective treatments.
How was Harvey significant?
He was a doctor who studied medicine at Padua university where he learnt the latest ideas and bought them back to England.
He studied both animals and humans for his work on the heart and circulation of blood.
He thought Galen was wrong.
He understood the circulation of blood and he noticed that their were two types of blood which flowed in different sets of blood vessels this discovery was vital to the development of surgery and the diagnosis of illness.
without this understanding many modern treatments such as blood tests and transplants could not work without this piece of information.
however
He was highly criticized.
Harvey could not explain why blood circulated or how it moved from arteries to veins due to the lack of technology.
