medicine - renaissance Flashcards
what was the year that Vesalius published his book; The fabric of the human body?
1543
what year did Harvey publish his book; An anatomical Account of the motion of the heart and blood?
1628
what year did king Charles ii die?
1685
What is Dysentery?
A severe infection causing frequent, fluid bowel movements.
what is physiology?
The study of how the body works
what is scrofula?
TB of the gland in the neck
what did Vesalius set up?
An anatomy school where he dissected animals
How did Vesalius prove Galen wrong?
He proved that there was one jaw bone and not two.
He found the breast bone has 3 parts not 7.
Through public dissection
what were the effects of Vesalius’ studies?
Any from
Doctors challenging and the church challenging.
Change in attitudes
Better training and improvement of knowledge
Must include
But had no impact on medical development.
what were the key ideas William Harvey discovered?
The heart was a pump in a one way circulatory system.
Man is a mechanism.
what 3 things did Galen think about blood?
That it was constantly being made in the liver to replace the blood burned up in the body.
The veins carried blood and oxygen around the body.
Blood passed through one side of the heart to the other through invisible holes in the septum.
How did Harvey discover that the heart was a pump?
He dissected live, cold blooded animals whose heart pumped slowly
what impact did Harvey’s work have on medicine?
Laid the ground work for future investigations of the body.
Many aspects of medicine depends on understanding the blood system.
He provided more evidence of the importance of dissection and experiments
when was the printing press created?
1450’s
why was it important that the printing press was created?
It allowed doctors or physicians to publish their work and helped change ideas in medicine.
