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Renaissance Medicine Flashcards

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Renaissance Britain

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Means ‘re-birth’- between 1500-1700

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Royal Society founded in

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1662

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1685

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King Charles II dies

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1543

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Vesalius publishes, ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’

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1628

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Harvey publishes, ‘An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood’

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Thomas Sydenham

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Founded Royal Society, groundbreaking for using observation over theory

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King’s Touch

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A ‘touch’ by the king supposed to cure disease

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Vesalius

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  • dissected bodies

- disproved many of Galen’s mistakes

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Harvey

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  • Discovered circulation of blood around the body
  • His book, ‘Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood’ in 1628 officials ended Galen’s ideas
  • Proved the Heart pumped blood
  • Surgery developed after his discovery
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