Renaissance Medicine Flashcards
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Vesalius - mid 1500s
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Professor of Anatomy in Padua
Rejected Galenic teachings - realised they were restricted to animals
Performed his own dissections
2
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Paracelsus - mid 1600s
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Use of chemicals and minerals in medicine
View that health depended on balance between microcosm (body) and macrocosm (nature)
Specific rather than cure-all remedies
Critical of ‘learned’ university medicine
3
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Gunshot wounds
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Created challenge for army surgeons, e.g Pare who created a plaster for gunshot wounds rather than burning them out
4
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Pare
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Social obility - rose from w/c to French court - thus emphasising deisrability of medical profession role
5
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Translations
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New and improved translations of Hippocratic Corpus and Galen
