Renaissance Flashcards
Background Information
Renaissance= Rebirth Study of Classical Text+ Critical of Old Transnational Body Worked= Obs+ Diss Artists= Illustrated Return of Ancient Text
Factors Which Progressed Medicine
Printing Press- Mass Produced
Weakening of Church- Nat cures
Artists
Ancient Text- Study/ Challenge
Andreas Vesalius - Anatomy
Studied Anatomy Professor of Sur & Anatomy at Padua Own Dissec= Books about Observation 'On the Fabric of the Human Body' - 1543 Gal Mistakes- No Holes SEPTUM Jaw= 1 Bone Encouraged Dissec
Ambroise Pare - Surgery
Battle Field Surgeon- Low Status
Ran out of Oil- Gun Wounds
Roman Ointment- Roses, Turpentine, Egg Yolk
Ligatures- Wounds/ Instead Of Cauterizing Iron
Galen Wrong- Bezor stone- Poison
Notes on Surgery- 1564
Kings Surgeon
Harvey- Blood
Circulation Of Blood- Galen
Identifies differences between Veins + Art
Doctors King
‘ An Anatomical Account of the motion of heart and blood’-1628
Bleeding Operations Continued
Blood Groups-1901
Impact of Developments + Med Treatments Amb, Har,Vers
Short Term: Developments had to No Impact
Long Term: Led to Treatments
Growth Of Profession
Doctors- Trained around Europe
Doctors- ‘Professional’- Improved by Learning
Protected Rep- Untrained prevented from practicing
Hospitals= Med Innovation
Reduced Woman Role
Decline of wise women- Witches
Male Doctors- Childbirth
Forceps ‘ Scientific’ = Men
Types Of Doctors
Renaissance= Not many Doctors/Professional Docs- Rich
Apothecaries- MADE/SOLD MED + ADVICE
Barber Surgeons- BASIC OP
Quacks- UNTRAINED/SOLD MED
Quack Doctors
PROFESSIONAL= EXPENSIVE QUACKS= CHEAP
Miracle Cures- attracted customers- MUSIC,CLOWNS, MONKEYS
‘Secre Ingredient’
1700’s- Profess worried
Quacks- Undermine & Competitors
PEOPLE= NO UNDERSTANDING OF DISEASE