Medicine Through Time
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- Created on: 04-04-13 11:09
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- Surgery and Anatomy
- Galen
- Dissected pigs an apes
- Finds the importance of the spinal cord
- Wrote over 100 medical books
- Books always talked about GOD
- This lead to the church been in charge of medicine till the Middle Ages
- Believed his ideas were correct and didn't question them
- This lead to the church been in charge of medicine till the Middle Ages
- Books always talked about GOD
- Studied skeletons in Alexandria
- Some of his ideas were incorrect
- Human dissection was forbidden. He thought human bodies were the same as animals
- In the Middle Ages they still used Galens work in dissections. Believed the body was deformed when it wasn't what Galen's work said it should be.
- Human dissection was forbidden. He thought human bodies were the same as animals
- He thought that blood was made in the Liver and was consumed
- Doctor for gladiators
- Dissected pigs an apes
- Vesalius
- Published the Tabulae Sex (six drawings of the body)
- Published the Fabric of the Human Body 1543
- Used professional artists
- Explained all drawings
- Stole a body from a gibbet to get a skeleton
- Lived during the Renaissance (rebirth of ideas)
- DISPROVED GALEN
- Galen said men have one less rib than women. Vesalius proved they have the same
- Galen said the human jawbone has 2 bones. Vesalius proved it has 1
- Galen said the human liver has 5 lobes. Vesalius proved it only has 2 lobes
- Harvey
- Harvey discovered that blood circulated around the body
- This replaced Galen's theory that blood is consumed
- Knew there was a fixed amount of blood in the body
- He identified the difference of arteries and veins
- He found the difference between cold and warm blooded animals
- Knew that the heart pumped blood around the body
- Harvey discovered that blood circulated around the body
- Lister
- Made carbolic acid spray
- This was an antiseptic. This sterilized the air so there wasn't germs in the surgery room
- It was used on instruments and bandages
- The carbolic acid was unpleasant on skin or to breathe in.
- He reduced the death rate in surgery from 50% to 15%
- Made carbolic acid spray
- Simpson
- Discovered chloroform by chance
- He left the top of a bottle of chloroform, he and some friends were found by his wife all knocked out
- Used it knock out patients so they could not feel pain
- It was opposed because of religion and not been able to trust the doctors
- Was accepted after Queen Victoria used it with her 8th child
- Wasn't very safe because patients were getting given too much and dying
- SNOW made it safer by making an inhaler to give patients the correct dose
- Discovered chloroform by chance
- Galen
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