medical renaissance - advanced organiser Flashcards
The year that Vesalius published the Fabric of the Human Body
1543
The year William Harvey proves that blood circulates around the body
1628
The year that there was the first meeting of the Royal Society.
1660
The year that the Great Plague arrived in Britain.
1665
The year Thomas Sydenham published Observationes
Medicae.
1676
The man known as the English Hippocrates who believed that diseases could be grouped by type and that doctors needed to closely observe symptoms.
Thomas Sydenham
An influential researcher who studied the human body by dissecting criminals.
Andreas Vesalius
Discovered that blood circulates around the body and is not produced in the liver.
William Harvey
He rejected the theory of the four humours. He used chemical substances to treat disease.
Paracelsus
An English scientist who developed the microscope
Robert Hooke
The dutch scientist who observed bacteria and called them animalcules
Van Leeuwenhoek
An early form of chemistry
alchemy
The science of understanding the structure of the body
anatomy
Cutting up a body to understand its structure
dissection
A way of treating disease through using chemical solutions
iatrochemistry
