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Irj 1500bc
Doctor to the Pharaoh
Palace doctor
(Mummification such as Tutankhamen)
Hippocrates
Ancient Greece 460bc
4 humours
Hippocrates oath
Observation and logic
Books on treatment
Aristotle 384 bc
Taught Alexander the Great
Earliest form of logic
Idea of philosophy
Ascelpious
Fed/washed/gymnasiums
Daughters hygiea and Pangea
Snakes would lick and heal your wounds
Roger Bacon 1219 ad
Friar
English
Questioned religious authority of church
Nature directed his thoughts about medicine
Major book (opus makes)
Paracelsus 1493 ad
Questioned Galens ideas
Founder of toxicology
Observation
Noticed some diseases are psychological
Galen 129 AD
Greek but lived in the roman era
Pig experiment (brain controlled the body not the heart)
Wrote 60 books, huge influence
Ideas about anatomy
Theory of opposites (if you have a Cold Eat a chilli pepper)
Inn sinna 980-1037
Muslim
Known as Avicenna
40 books on medicine
Most famous book (canon of Medicine)
Al Razi 852
Compassionate teacher
Physician in Bahgdad
Book about measles and smallpox - discovered the difference
Book on “surgery”
Arabic medieval times
Crusades meant they could get some knowledge
Ibn al Nafis
Disagreed with Galen about the circulation of the blood
Came up with an idea about circulation of blood (before Harvey)
110 Medical books
Ambroise Pare
1510
Ointment to put on wounds instead of cauterising
War surgeon in France
Soldiers healed more quickly
Successful surgery
Ligiertures very rarely clean( successful later when clean thread was around)
Andreas Vesalius 1514
Studied in Paris and Italy Anatomy Da Vinci drew his discoveries Dissecting Professor of surgery in Italy Book "fabric of the human body" Proved Galen wrong - proved there wasn't a hole in the heart
William Harvey 1578
Followed Ibn Al Nafis ideas on blood circulation
Book “motion of the heart”
Couldn’t prove that arteries & veins were joined because they didn’t have good enough telescopes
Lady Grace Milway 1552
Expected to provide good medical care