renaissance surgory Flashcards
what were common problems still with renaisance sergory
doctors were still expenive people still used barbour surgons normally there were no painkillers used improper medical tools used for surgories resulting in infection
what was the royal socitey?
a group of scientists from london who disscused new idas and published and spread new works as well as setting up a laboritory with eqipment like microscopes and king charles started comming to meetings in 1622
they helpd promote the scientific method and meant by the end of the 1600s Galen’s theories were less acepted
who was Ambroise Pare
an expert in battle feild medicine he invented surgical instruments and invented a treatment to colse wounds with a mixture of turpentine rose oil and egg yolk when he ran out of cauterseation oil wich recused the pain and likelyhood of infection in patients
he also made the greek idea of ligatures popular again to colse wounds instead of cauteriseation during amputaions
who was jhon hunter
he set up a school to train surgons and encourged scientific thinking he was surgon to George ii and had grate influence and published lots of books that told how to do operations like remove bullers as well as tesing new sergories like tieng of arteries to avois cateriseation collected 500+ plant and animal specimins and 3000 anatomical specimins wich he used for experiements and development of treatments worte ‘blood inflamation and gunshot wounds’ and ‘natural history of teeth’ he succesfully tearted a man with a tumor on his knee joint by tieing off the arteries to restric blood flow to the anyerism.
what was the royal colledge of surgons
they were a company of surgons that fromed in 1745 as surgones started to get more respect and still exist today
what was training of surgons like
4 humours still popular so focus on them as well and galen and hippocroties and training started to take place in wards and the scussess of this reviesd training proved the importance of the scientific method adied by microscopes and new tech
as well as the allowance of dissections by the church
who was Andreas Vesillius
he ecnourgaed his tudents to find out how the human body worked and, as a local judge took interest, he was allowed to do dissections of Criminals in 1543 he wrote on the fabric of the human body and employed arists to make drawings of anatomy so that doctors had a better understnading of the humand body he also proved Galen worng sometimes e.g that the jaw was mage of one bone not 2
Who was William Harvey?
descovered that blood circulated around the body and was not manufactored by the liver and was burned up in muscles he dissected newts and other animals and built a detailed knowedlge of the cardiovascular system and rejected Galen’s ideas he proved the neart acted like a pump around the body he worte An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals. in 1628
