The Medical Renaissance
- Created by: Stephers
- Created on: 26-04-14 16:28
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- The Medical Renaissance
- Harvey
- Heart pumps blood - through dissection
- Renaissance
- i.e. Rebirth - came out of the dark (middle) ages - big impact on medicine
- Associated with figures such as Leonardo Da Vinci - important for his drawings of anatomy
- Pare
- New methods for gunshot wounds and stopping bleeding
- Printing Press
- Allows for the spread of information and discoveries
- Vesalius
- The anatomy of the body
- Reformation
- Questioning of the Catholic Church lead to the questioning of Galen's ideas
- Treatments
- Magical cures - the Kings touch
- Herbal Remedies
- New Ingredients from abroad
- Bleeding and Purging
- The bezoar - testing a magical cure
- The Great Plague
- Struck again in the late 17th century - 1665
- Mass graves dug to bury many bodies at once
- Doctors wore a costume when visiting patients to protect them
- Encouraged investigation and inqiury
- Harvey
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