Paré
- Created by: Stephers
- Created on: 09-04-14 23:39
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- Pare
- Individual Genius
- Determined, intelligent, willing to try new ideas and didn't give in to those who said he was wrong
- Technology
- Printing spread his ideas more quick;y
- Surgery
- Practice in wartime helped surgeons make minor improvements
- Gunpowder in gunshot wounds was thought to be poisonous so they poured boiling oil binded up with oil soaked clothe-painful
- Open woulnds and amputations were closed with a red hot iron (a cautery) onto the wound to seal the blood vessels-painful
- Attitudes
- Willing to learn and didn't rely on books
- Chance
- He only tried the natural remedy as he ran out of boiling oil
- War
- As he was an army surgeon, he had experience, practice and opportunities to try new methods
- BUT
- Stopping bleeding with ligatures was slow
- Ligatures were dangerous-infections
- His discoveries were still small-scale
- Achievements
- Pare replaced the boiling oil with egg yolks, oil of roses and turpentine
- He used ligatures to stop bleeding-tying thread around a blood vessel
- He designed and arranged the making of false limbs for wounded soldiers and included drawings in his book to spread the word
- Individual Genius
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