Renaissance
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- Created on: 01-06-16 15:31
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- Renaissance
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- vesalius - anatomy
- he wrote 'the fabric of the human body' - 1543
- it contained detailed diagrams and a list of his observations
- he pointed out some of Galen's mistakes that there are no holes in the septum of the heart
- people said that the human body must have changed since Galen's time
- he wrote 'the fabric of the human body' - 1543
- William harvey - circulation of the blood
- this disproved Galen's idea that the blood was consumed
- finds out the differences between veins and arteries
- he wrote 'an anatomical account of the motion of the heart and blood'
- vesalius - anatomy
- public health
- lots of wars which used up resources
- population was increasing putting strain on sewage systems and clean water supplies
- the great plague 1665
- people were locked away and had red crosses painted on their doors
- corpses were buried in mass graves
- the great fire of london 1666 killed off most of the bacteria for the plague sterilising the area
- other
- printing press ideas spread more easily and books mass produced
- people started to sway towards medical knowledge of natural causes for disease not religious ideas which weakened the church
- individuals
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