Medicine - Post Roman
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- Medicine - Post Roman
- Middle Ages
- Causes of disease
- God
- Unbalance of the four humours
- Bad air or 'miasma'
- Witch craft
- Jewish Community
- The Jews were judged on their unusal fashion trend
- Astrology
- If the planets were out of balance, illness w
- Domination of the Church
- Read Galen
- His theories supported the ideology of the church
- Had the only books
- If you wanted to be a doctor, you had to go through the church
- Stopped the spread of knowledge
- If you devised a new theory, you questioned the laws Christianity
- Read Galen
- Collapse of the Roman Empire
- Resulted in war between newly devised nations and tribes
- Public health system was destroyed
- The Churches possessed books on Galen's work
- Famine
- Overall regression
- No centralised governments
- Due to 50 years of political instability
- After the battle of Adrianople, the Roman Empire was spli, after the execution of their emporer.
- The Black Death
- Last major outbreak was in 1666
- Spread by the oriental rat flea
- Arrived in Britain in summer 1348
- Consumed Britain in 1351
- All apart from Scotland as they weere feuding with the English and had closed their borders
- Population of England went from 4 million to 2.5 million
- In Europe, 1 in 10 died due to the plague
- Cures included burning the belongings of victims, killing the area's dogs and cats and herbal remedies
- Day 1 - Buboes Day 2 - Fever Day 3 - Bleeding under the skin Day 4 - Nervous spasms, Day 5 - Buboes burst
- Treatments
- Bleeding
- Chicken or frog under the armpits
- Bags of lavender
- Butter on the buboes
- Public Health
- Open sewers and cess pits
- Fines were imposed for anyone chucking waste into the street
- Butchers had to cut their meat in a designated area
- Fined for throwing blood/ waste meat into the streets
- Bath four times a year
- Causes of disease
- Renaissance
- Vesalius
- Born in Brusells in 1514
- Stole a criminal's corpse as a young boy
- Criminals were not buried in church graveyards
- Studied Medicine in Paris and Italy
- Met artists who studied skeletons and bodies in order to make their work more realistic
- BEFORE VESALIUS
- Galen's theories were 'completely accurate'
- Had been in place for hundreds of years
- Noone could challenge his ideas
- Galen's theories were 'completely accurate'
- Dissected on humans, as this was allowed in Italy
- Wrote 'Fabric of the Human Body'
- Discovered that thejaw was in one part, not two
- Found out that the septum in the heart is a thick wall and does not 'leak blood'
- William Harvey
- Born in Kent in 1578
- Went to Cambridge University to study medicine
- Worked as a doctor in London and later went on to be a lecturer
- Wrote 'An Anatomical Account of the motion of Heart and Blood in 1657
- Discovered the circulatory system
- The heart pumps the blood around the body
- Dissected live cold blooded anmals
- Their hearts beat slowly allowing him to see each muscle moving
- Dissected dead bodies and conducted research battlefield (English Civil War)
- Travelled to Italy to gain knowledge
- Vesalius
- Middle Ages
- Vesalius
- Born in Brusells in 1514
- Stole a criminal's corpse as a young boy
- Criminals were not buried in church graveyards
- Studied Medicine in Paris and Italy
- Met artists who studied skeletons and bodies in order to make their work more realistic
- BEFORE VESALIUS
- Galen's theories were 'completely accurate'
- Had been in place for hundreds of years
- Noone could challenge his ideas
- Galen's theories were 'completely accurate'
- Dissected on humans, as this was allowed in Italy
- Wrote 'Fabric of the Human Body'
- Discovered that thejaw was in one part, not two
- Found out that the septum in the heart is a thick wall and does not 'leak blood'
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