Week 4 Flashcards
Man was not capable of learning from his own observations.
Science was static.
The Age of Faith
Disease was a punishment.
The appropriate response was to suffer.
Christianity
Church’s view of science
Aristotle for biology
Galen for medicine
Surgery on the Middle Ages was performed by ________.
Barbers
Barber Pole represented
Red = blood White = bandages Blue = veins
Leprosy was killed off by ______.
The Bubonic Plague
Two main types of plague
Pneumonic and Bubonic
Plague transmitted by droplets sprayed from the lungs and mouth
Pneumonic
Plague wiped out 33% (10 million) of the European population in two years
Bubonic Plague
The theory that vapors from decomposing materials were the cause of disease.
Miasma
Italian born, raised respect for nursing, focused heavily on miasma for hospital cleanliness
Nightingale
Best educated surgeon of his time (French)
Published Chirurgia Magna
Guy De Chauliac
Created the first printing press
Johannes Gutenburg
Italian artist who accurately portrayed muscles and other structures.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Established stantards
Philippus Paracelsus
Proposed the earliest germ theory of disease.
Referred to germs as seminaria
Girolamo Fracastoro
Discovered the fallopian tubes
Gabriel Fallopius
Father of modern surgery
Opposed the theory of laudable pus
Ambroise Pare
“The dorsal vertebrae outwardly dislocated, when they stand bunching forth… Then must you lye with your extuberancyes, and force the prominent vertebrae… you may know that the vertebrae are restored by the equal smoothness of the whole spine.”
Ambrose Pare
Proved that blood was pumped around the body in a closed system.
William Harvey
Considered the founder of Histology
Marcello Malpighi
Father of bacteriology and protozoology
Antoni Van Leewenhoek
First to use thermometry in clinical practice
Hermann Boerhaave
Universities, banks, modern cities and nationalism were created during this time.
Middle ages
