Important people in Renasissance medicine
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- Created on: 20-03-18 18:28
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- Important people in Renaissance medicine
- Vesalius
- Born in 1514 in Brussels Died in 1564
- In France and Italy where he studied and he saw realistic drawings
- Artists studied skeletons and cut them up
- Encouraged to bring ideas to class by dissecting executing criminals
- Padua University
- Professor of surgery and had crowded lectures
- Padua University
- Professor of surgery and had crowded lectures
- Fabric of the Human Body
- Proved some of Galen's theories wrong
- Based on anatomy
- World's finest artists sketched drawings
- Inspired many to carry out experiments
- Proved women and men had same amount of ribs
- Criticisms meant he had to leave Padua
- Became a doctor for Emperor Charles V of Spain
- William Harvey
- Born in 1578
- Pushed wires down veins of criminals to show there are valves in brain
- Measured the amount of blood moved by each heartbeat
- Wrote book on the movement of the heart and the blood in animals
- Theories
- Arteries connected to veins by tiny capillaries
- Proven when microscope was invented
- Contributed to science after he died
- Proven when microscope was invented
- Arteries connected to veins by tiny capillaries
- Contributed to science after he died
- Thomas Sydenham
- Developed Hipprocates theory
- Had theories that were used to cure disease
- Observation
- Diseases should be classified into groups
- Every diagnosis and remedy should be chosen correctly
- Close observation of patients
- Book: Observations Medicae
- Published in 1676
- Showed doctors what to do
- Had theories that were used to cure disease
- Observation
- Diseases should be classified into groups
- Every diagnosis and remedy should be chosen correctly
- Close observation of patients
- Had theories that were used to cure disease
- Vesalius
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