Renaissance Medicine

Renaissance Medicine

Important people:

Ambroise Pare- French Barber-surgeon/ war medic; wrote 'Works on Surgery'; used ligatures to                                close wounds then used an old roman remedy of egg yolk, rose oil and warm to                                 seal them.

William Harvey- English doctor; wrote 'Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cardius et Sanguinis in                                   Animalibus' (On the motion of the heart and blood in animals); proved Galen                                     wrong; proved blood is pumed around the body not used up.

Andreas Versaiius- Belgian biologist; wrote 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem' (On the fabric of the humsn body); proved Galen wrong through his illegal dissections.

Who Treated People?

Mothers and wives still looked after their families on the most…