Renaissance Heroes Flashcards
What did pare do ?
Used ligatures for bleeding
Used his own mixture and turpentine for gunshot wounds
Designed false limbs for soldiers
What limitations were against pare?
Using ligatures was slow
Didn’t know about blood groups
No anasthetics
No antiseptics
What did Vesalius do ?
Wrote book the fabric of the human body
Learn more from dissecting humans than animals
What were he limitations against Vesalius ?
Doctors refused Galen was wrong
Nobody healthier as result of discoveries
What did William Harvey do?
Proved heart pumped blood around the body
Dissected live animals to see movement of muscles
Dissected human bodies
What were the limitations against William Harvey?
More to discover
Couldn’t make blood transfusions
Some ignored him
Didn’t make anyone better
Thought he was mad
What did John Hunter do ?
Came up with placebo affect
Observed gunshot wounds where people would survive longer without going under surgeons knife and get infection and dirt
New experiment
What did Jenner do?
Came up with inoculation for smallpox by giving people cowpox
