Facts- Medicine Flashcards
What was the name of the book published by Vesalius in 1543?
The Fabric of the Human body
Which individual did Vesalius prove wrong?
Galen
Which of Galens ideas were proved wrong by Vesalius?
That the lower jaw was in two parts. That blood passed through the septum.
What was the effect of the work of Vesalius?
He made people question Galen and showed the importance of human dissection
Who did the colour illustrations in the Fabric of the Human Body?
Leonardo Da Vinci
How did Pare help wounds to heal
He used an ointment of egg yolks, oil of roses and turpentine
What was the effect of Pare’s ointment
The soldiers wounds healed cleanly with less pain than if boiling oil was used.
How did Pare stop the bleeding?
He used ligatures (silk threads) to tie the blood vessels closed
What method did ligatures replace?
Cauterisation where you use a red hot iron to seal wounds closed.
What did William Harvey discover?
He showed that blood was pumped around the body by the heart.
What was the problem with Ligatures?
Pare didn’t understand that the silk threads could carry germs into the wounds and cause infection.
Who did Harvey prove wrong?
Galen, he believed that blood was produced in the liver to replace the blood that was burnt by the body as fuel.
How did William Harvey show that blood could only flow one way?
He tried to pump liquids past the valves in the veins but wasn’t able to.
How did Harvey prove his discovery?
He dissected live cold blooded animals to observe how their hearts worked as well as dissecting human bodies.
When was the Great Plague
1665
Where did the Great Plague occur
It was centred in London
Which section of society was blamed for the spread of the Plague?
Poor people
Why were poorer members of society more at risk from the Great Plague?
Because they lived in poor quality overcrowded housing. This made them more exposed to rats, fleas and spreading the disease between people.
What factor was significant in stopping the Great Plague that wasn?t present during the Black Death?
Government: Unlike in the Middle Ages the 17thC saw the rise of an organised central government that implemented Public Health measures.
What measures were introduced by the Government in order to stop the Plague from spreading?
Infected people were locked in their houses, the poor were forbidden to leave London, People were ordered to clean the streats outside of their houses
Why did preventing the poor from leaving London have a positive effect nationally?
Because it meant that the Plague was contained to London and wasn?t able to spread around the country.
Why did locking infected people and their families in their houses stop the plague from spreading?
Because they were unable to spread the disease by coming into contact with other people. They would either recover from the disease or die before they could infect the wider population.
Why was closing down public meeting places like taverns effective?
Because it prevented people from gathering in large groups, this meant that the plague couldn?t spread quickly among a large group of people.
What led to the plague almost completely dying out at the end of 1665?
A extremely cold winter led to freezing temperatures which killed off the fleas that spread the disease.
