History Homework
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- Renaissance Doctors
- William Harvey 1578- 1657
- Progress
- Public dissections
- Said important to investigate
- Discovered circulation of blood
- Dissected human corpses, cut open cold-blood animals alive.
- Proved veins and arteries in one system
- Proved Galen wrong - Galen said blood made in liver.
- Encouraged others to experiment.
- Limitations
- More knowledge needed before practicality.
- Couldn't have blood transfusion as blood types not discovered.
- Galen's ideas used until 1651. Harvey's only used from 1673.
- Progress
- Thomas Sydenham
- Doctor in London in 1660's and 70's.
- Observed symptoms and treated diseases.
- Refused to rely on medical books.
- Believed diseases could be categorised - nature or humour not related to disease.
- Created new treatments:
- Airy bedrooms.
- Light blankets.
- Cold drinks to treat smallpox.
- Popularised use of cinchona bark to treat malaria.
- Andreas Vesalius
- Limitations
- Noone got any better.
- Traditional physicians angry he criticised Galen.
- Differences Vesalius found due to changes in body since Galen did his work.
- Progress
- Lecturer at Padua.
- The Fabric of the Human Body in 1543.
- Had detailed drawings of body due to careful dissections.
- Proved Galen wrong over 300 times.
- Vesalius showed human was one bone, not two,
- Anatomy became a central part of medicine.
- Encouraged people to dissect and challenge old ideas.
- Limitations
- William Harvey 1578- 1657
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