Health & The People: Key Figures In Medieval Medicine Flashcards
What did Vesalius dissect? (2)
Pigs & apes
How did versalius learn from dissections?
By doing them himself
What did Vesalius make with his findings?
Charts and Drawings
What were Vesalius’ ideas based on?
Scientifical discoveries
What did Vesalius find about some of Galen’s findings?
That some of them were incorrect
What did Vesalius receive after saying Galen’s ideas were wrong?
Heavy criticism - as a result, he left his job
What was the name of the book that Vesalius wrote?
‘The Fabric of the Human Body’
What year was Vesalius’ book published?
1543
What did Vesalius’ book focus on?
Focused on different systems within the body
What did Vesalius show others about dissections?
How to do them properly
Who followed Vesalius’ ways?
Famous 16th Century anatomists - Fabricius, Renaldo Culumbo, Fallopius
In the later 16th Century, where was Vesalius’ book found?
In England
What did Parè use to heal gunshot wounds?
A homemade ointment
What was Parè’s ointment made out of?
Egg Whites
Rose oil
Turpentine
When did Parè first use the ointment?
When he ran out of boiling oil
What used to heal gunshot wounds before Parè’s ointment?
Boiling oil
What did Parè find out about his ointment?
That it worked better than boiling oil
What else did Parè invent to stop bleeding?
Ligatures
What were ligatures?
Silk threads tied around each individual blood vessel
What was the one negative about Parè’s ligatures?
Surgeons didn’t know about germs so wounds would get infected
What did Parè write his book on?
Treating wounds in a new, better way
How did Parè learn?
From Vesalius’ work
What did Parè also invent?
The bec de corbing
What was the bec de Corbing?
A clamp that halted bleeding whilst the blood vessels were being tied off
