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- Renaissance
- Harvey
- Surgery and anatomy
- Dissected live, cold blooded animals with slow heart beats so he could see each muscle move
- Dissected human bodies to build up a detailed knowledge of the heart
- Gave proof of his conclusions when disagreeing with other theories
- Measured the amount of blood by each heart beat and calculated the amount of blood in the body.
- Proved that blood flows in one direction
- proved that the heart acts like a pump
- Said that blood is carried away from the heart in the arteries and returns in the veins
- Said that blood is carried away from the heart in the arteries and returns in the veins
- His discoveries could not be put to a practical purpose at the time, so were greatly underappreciated.
- John Hunter
- He joined his brother William, a doctor at his anatomy school in London where they dissected human corpses.
- Over 12 years, Hunter developed an unrivalled knowledge of the human body
- Hunter became an army surgeon and a popular teacher
- He made several important medical discoveries. He learned more about venereal disease, a major cause of illness at the time, and introduced a new approach to the treatment of gunshot wounds.
- In 1785, Hunter introduced a new way to treat an aneurysm in a man's thigh. He tied off the blood vessel to encourage blood to flow through the other vessels in the leg, stopping it from having to be amputated. Hunter encouraged better approaches to surgery. This included good scientific habits like learning about the body to understand illness, experimenting to find better ways to treat disease and testing treatments before using them on people.He believed surgery should be regarded as a science rather than a craft and that doctors should be better educated with a methodical approach
- He believed surgery should be regarded as a science rather than a craft and that doctors should be better educated with a methodical approach#
- Harvey
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