Hisotory Of Medicine - Medical Knowledge Q4 Flashcards
How much progress was there in medical knowledge in the medieval period?
Very limited
What were the main elements of medical knowledge in the medieval period?
Early chemistry- alchemy trying to find the elixir of life
Astrologers used zodiac charts to work out which treatments could be used
Galen and the four hypocrites
Who was Andreas Versailles
Professor of anatomy at Padua University Italy
Understanding of human anatomy, 1543 he published ‘The fabric of human anatomy’
Who was Ambrouise Pare?
An army surgeon
Discovered that wounds would heal much quicker if rapped in bandages and ends of arteries were tied with silk ligatures
When was The Collected Works of Surgery published and who wrote it?
1575
Pare
What did William Harvey believe?
The importance of observation and experimentation
What did William Harvey prove?
That blood pumped around the body by the heart
When was Motion Of Heart published.
1628
What was Louis Pasteur most important theory
Germ theory.
How did Robert Koch get bacteria to be visible under a microscope?
Stained bacteria
What did Koch pioneer?
Bacteriology
Who was Paul Ehrlich ?
A student of Robert Koch
He developed Salvarson 606 in 1910 as a treatment for syphilis
‘Magic bullet’
WELSH EXAMPLE 1800s
Dr J W Power
Power was the medical officer for health in Ebbw Vale who set up courses in bacteriology and germ theory
Who discovered X-Rays
Wilhelm Röntgen
When did X-rays become really important ?
The First World War
Enabled doctors to find deeply lodged bullets
