Medical Reniassance And Important People Flashcards
What is the renaissance
Started in Italy
New ideas and challenges of Catholicism church
The age of discovery and dawning of civilisation
Context on Andreas vesailus
Studied medicine in Paris and Italy
Met artists who studied skeletons and dissection
Write the fabric of the human body which transformed anatomy into a subject which relied on observation
What did Vesalius do
Showed Galen was wrong in important details of anatomy
Vital to dissect humans and see the structure
Proved Galen wrong and challenged his ideas on the heart
What was Vesalius impact
He angered many posits and he dared to challenge Galen so not may people took notice of him
But his book of anatomy was largely circulated
Who was ambrosie pare and how was pare helped to find his dicibefys
He was an army surgeon and spent 20 years in campaign.
Because Harry what in the army he saw many injuries which gave him a basic understanding of anatomy and and he experienced pain injuries soldiers had to suffer through cauterising
What pare do
Pare challenged the idea of gunshot wounds being treated by boiling oil
He created an ointment of roman medicine which treated wounds bettter than boiling oil
He also found an alternative to burning stopping bleeding > using silk threads
What was the technique used to treat wounds called before pare and what did he do (what did he use instead?)
Cauterising
He discovered wounds healed quicker by using ligatures which were tied around the end of arteries
What was pares impact on medicine
Why did ligatures not catch on completely well
His ligatures impact didn’t catch on straight away and there was also a problem because germs were not known about at the time so they were on the ligatures and something’s got into the wound so infection would set in
^ had a good long term impact
Who was William Harvey
Lecturer or anatomy
Wrote the anatomical account of the motion of the heart and blood in animals
What did Harvey do
Found out the heat beats
Dissected humans and discovered valves and the The circulation of blood around the body
he proved blood flowed in one way system and calculated how much blood within the body
He also disproved galens theory that blood was burnt up
What was Harveys impact
It was only a theory and have a little short-term impact it also didn’t say lives
Had a good long-term impact and doctors use his theory today e.g. blood transfusion and transplants
How is progress made for medicine though the renaissance
The printing press was made
Gaylane started to be challenge
The church became less powerful and public health is improving
