The enlightenment Flashcards
How did the enlightenment affect thinking in medicine?
Science and intellect began to be more favored over romanticism and superstition. Wider dissemination of knowledge since travel more common, and printing press greatly increased books throughout the world/ “age of reason” (think logically and objectively). These idea filtered into medicine slowly.
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
- “father of pathology”.
- First to base diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment on exact anatomical knowledge of conditions
De sedibus et causis morborum per aatomen indagatis
Book written by Giovanni, that systematized the presentation of various diseases.
Albrecht Von Haller
Child prodigy taught by Boerhaave. Did many original investigations into physiology.
Leopold Auenbrugger
First to describe percussion’s use in diagnosis.
Fremitus
vibratory sensation under the hand produced when percussing the chest. First described by Auenbrugger.
William Hunter
Older brother. Taught anatomy and dissection at a theater he and his brother built in London.
Anatomia uteri humani gravidi
Anatomy of pregnancy written by William Hunter.
John Hunter
Little brother to William Hunter. He was an excellent anatomist, and responsible for grave robbing to obtain bodies for dissection.
-studied of inflammation, venereal diseases, gunshots wounds, lacteals, lymphatic system.
Jean Corvisart
strong advocate of percussion, and precordial palpation.
Rene Lannec
Inventor of the stethoscope.
- First to lecture on melanoma.
- first to describe rales, rhonchi, crepitance, and egophony.
- named cirrhosis.
Edward Jenner
Pioneer of smallpox vaccination (did not invent it, but popularized it).
Demonstrated the efficacy of vaccination.
Benjamin Rush
Proponent of heroic medicine (=bleeding and purging). “American Hippocrates”.
