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  • Renaissance Individuals
    • Thomas Sydenham (1624-89)
      • English doctor. Recognised the symptoms for scarlet fever. He correctly classified the illness and medicine
      • Critical of the Quack medicine trade
      • Dismissed the value of dissections. Ignored Harvey's descovery
      • Used Bleeding methods for treatment
      • Book Medical Observations 1676
    • John Hunter
      • Surgeon to king George the third in 1776
      • Surgeon general in the army.
      • Published book on observations and dissections. Wrote about the discoveries nature of disease.
      • Collected 3000 anatomical specimens. Stuffed animals
      • Taught Edward Jenner in scientific approach
      • Demanded careful observation and radical surgery

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