Public Health during the Renaissance
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- Created on: 15-01-16 17:13
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- Public Health during the Renaissance (Rebirth)
- Vesalius
- Proved Galen's ideas wrong
- The Fabric of the Human Body
- Muscles, nerves, organs and skeleton
- The Fabric of the Human Body
- Proved Galen's ideas wrong
- Harvey
- An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in animals
- Blood is carried in veins and was pumped by the heart
- An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in animals
- Technology
- Better microscope lenses led to the discovery of bacteria
- Printing Press
- Mechanical pumps showed that the human body worked like a machine
- Impact on medicine
- Causes of diseases still not understood
- Old treatment methods were still used
- Harvey's + Vesalius' ideas were slow to be accepted
- Medical teaching still based on Galen's theories
- Causes of diseases still not understood
- John Hunter
- Expert in dissection
- Clear illustrations of human anatomy
- Observation and Experiment
- Changes in the body
- Pregnancy
- Progressive Diseases
- Taught Edward Jenner
- New Renaissance methods
- Expert in dissection
- Government Action 1350-1750
- Public baths and toilets
- Not letting people from other areas into towns and cities
- Fines for littering
- Health wasn't something for the government to be involved in, so there wasn't a lot of action from them
- Problems 1350-1750
- Poor sanitation
- Polluted water
- Cesspits /chamber pots
- Emptied in drains or out the window
- Vesalius
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