Versalius, Pare, and Harvey Flashcards
What year was Versalius?
1537
What did Versalius have a soft spot for?
Galen’s 1400 year old ideas
What did Versalius steal in order to fuel his obsession?
Dead bodies
What did Versalius discover that proved Galen wrong? What year as well?
Anatomy of human body was different to a hog
1540s
What proffesion was Pare?
A barber surgeon
Where was it where Pare honed his skills as a surgeon?
Piedmont 1537
What was the accepted treatment of curing wounds prior to Pare?
Pouring hot oil
What happened to Pare during a battle in 1537? And what did he do about it?
He ran out of hot oil, so he improvised with a mixture of turpentine, egg white and rose oil.
What did Pare also reintroduced as a technique to curing wounds?
Galens old technique of sewing up arteries
What did William Harvey discover?
That blood actually circulated around the body. Instead of Galens idea which was blood was created in the liver and burned in the muscles.
What was there when Harvey published his ideas on blood circulation? And why?
Outrage, partly because he dared to challenge Galen and partly because there would be less blood letting.
