Renaissance Medicine
- Created by: Sophie Perrett
- Created on: 12-12-13 18:53
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- Renaissance 1400-1600
- William Harvey
- Wrote a book called the 'The anatomical account of the motion of the heart and blood'
- Dissected live COLD blooded animals(because there blood was slower)so he could see the movement of each muscle in the heart
- Knowledge about the heart
- The body has a one way system for blood
- Calculated the amount of blood traveling through the arteries
- Used theories form past doctors
- Andreas Versalius
- 'Fabric of the Human Body'
- Opposed Galen
- The breastbone has 3 parts not 7
- The human jaw was one bone not two
- The blood does not flow into the heart through invisible holes in the septum
- The printing press helped him copy his work and spread his knowledge
- Background
- Born 1514, studied medicine in Padua and Paris
- Born 1578, studied medicine in Cambridge and Padua, worked as a doctor in London
- William Harvey
- Wrote a book called the 'The anatomical account of the motion of the heart and blood'
- Dissected live COLD blooded animals(because there blood was slower)so he could see the movement of each muscle in the heart
- Knowledge about the heart
- The body has a one way system for blood
- Calculated the amount of blood traveling through the arteries
- Used theories form past doctors
- William Harvey
- Ambroise Pare
- Background: Born 1510, 20 years as an army surgeon
- 10 Books on surgery
- Gun shot wounds: Instead of using hot oil he found his own remedy that worked
- Used ligatures to stop bleeding
- Designed and arranged false limbs for injured soldiers
- William Harvey
- Opposed Galen
- The breastbone has 3 parts not 7
- The human jaw was one bone not two
- The blood does not flow into the heart through invisible holes in the septum
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