History Of Medicine Flashcards
What was Hippocrates discovery?
He came up with the four humours that he believed to be cause of illness if they were unbalanced
What did the four humours include?
Blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile
Who was Galen?
A gladiator surgeon
Why did Galen dissect animals?
To discover the anatomy of what bones looked like
What did Galen discover of the inside of an animal?
He said that the inside of an animal is the same as inside of a human
Who was Vesalius?
An anatomist
What did Vesalius do?
He took bodies from cemeteries and dissected them
What did Vesalius book include?
It contained pictures of the anatomy of the human body
What did Vesalius book allow people to understand?
What the body looked like from the inside
Who was Paré?
A war surgeon
What did Paré discover?
A new ointment which included egg yolk, oil of roses and a mixture of herbs instead of using boiling hot water
How did Paré tie up wounds?
By using LIGATURES made from SILK THREADS to tie up arteries and veins to stop bleeding
Who was Hippocrates?
He was a doctor in Ancient Greece
How did Vesalius prove Galen wrong?
Galen relied on dissection of animals and did not look into the structure of the human body
What did Galen prove?
That the brain controlled the body not the heart
What public experiment did Galen carry out?
An experiment on a pig by cutting nerves which made the pig squeal but then cut a voice box nerve which made the big stop
What treatments did Hippocrates look for?
Natural treatments e.g change in diet, rest and exercise
What did doctors believe before Harvey?
That blood was being produced in liver to replace blood that was being burnt up in the body which was Galens idea
What did Harvey discover?
That the blood flows around the body and is carried away from the heart by the arteries and returns to the heart in veins
What did he prove the heart acted as?
A pump which recirculates the blood
What did John Snow discover?
That cholera was caused due to the water supply
How did John Snow carry out his observations?
House to house interviews, observations
Who was Edwin Chadwick?
A civil servant who was employed by the Poor Law Commission
What was Edwin Chadwick asked to do?
Asked to write a report on the living conditions of the poor in both town and country areas
