Renaissance Surgery
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- Created on: 03-10-19 19:00
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- Renaissance: Surgery
- Vesalius
- Wrote book supporting ideas of Galen. 6 years later wrote book challenging him.
- Carried out own dissections- wanted to carry out own research for best places for bloodletting- to prove Galen was right.
- Suggested he was wrong as he only did dissections on animals.
- Promoted dissections in lectures as a way to discover more about body and teach students.
- Wrote 'Fabric of Human Body'-1543.
- Different to others
- Organised differently and explained how systems worked. Illustrations- very precise.
- Different to others
- Heavily criticised for daring to say Galen was wrong.
- Work caught on due to Thomas Geminus copying all of his illustrations into his book.
- Pare
- Bloodloss
- Promoted use of tying ligatures around individual blood vessels- less cruel compared to cauterisation
- Infection
- Used cream of rose oil, egg white and turpentine to reduce infection in less painful way compared to burning oil.
- Cream was naturally antiseptic
- Used cream of rose oil, egg white and turpentine to reduce infection in less painful way compared to burning oil.
- Pain
- Stopped using burning oil to treat gunshot wounds
- Bloodloss
- Harvey
- Experimented by pumping blood wrong way through vessels- meaning it can only circulate one way.
- Enabled further discoveries like blood transfusions and heart transplants.
- Better focus on blood loss and less bloodletting.
- More accepted when taught in Uni of Paris.
- Experimented by pumping blood wrong way through vessels- meaning it can only circulate one way.
- Galen's Theory of Blood
- Galen believed new blood is constantly made in liver and used up as a fuel- burnt in body.
- He said blood passed from one side to the other through invisible holes.
- Columbo discovered blood moved along veins and arteries. Fabricius proved there are valves in veins.
- He said blood passed from one side to the other through invisible holes.
- Galen believed new blood is constantly made in liver and used up as a fuel- burnt in body.
- Hunter
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- Vesalius
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