History: Medicine and Surgery (1500-1750 Renaissance)

Renaissance (1500-1750)

Beliefs-

• God punishing wicked making them ill
• King's touch to make people better

Characters-

• Vesalius was doctor. Self taught anatomy disproving Galen's work of jaw and permeable heart membrane. Wrote "Fabric of Human Body"
• Pare was a barber surgeon. Replaced cauterising with ligatures and boiling oil with natural oils. Saved lives, but introduced infections. Wrote book "Works on Surgery"
• Harvey was a doctor. Disproved Galen's idea of blood manufatured in liver and replaced with heart that pumped blood. Wrote "Motion of Heart"
• Paracelus identified disease attacked body, rather than imbalance
• Wiseman surgeon to King. Wrote books about surgery

Doctors-

• Physicians qualified doctors, studying 14 years…