Renaissance Surgery
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- Created on: 10-05-14 13:52
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- Renaissance Surgery
- Ambrose Paré
- Discovered wounds healed better with boiled poultice, egg yolks and rose oil.
- Discouraged Cauterisation
- Used ligatures to tie arteries instead of cauterising.
- Laudanum (a pain killer) discovered by Paracelsus
- Doctors were unable to cure infectious diseases
- Edward Jenner discovers Smallpox vaccine, but no-one knows why it prevents smallpox
- Diagnosis was no different from medieval diagnosis
- Cures for the plague involded pieces of paper with the word abracadabra written on it
- Ambrose Paré
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