3. medical renaissance

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What was the royal society?
This was a society of educated people who discussed new ideas
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What was Andrea vesalius's main ideas?
Galen was wrong about anatomy (no hole in heart/ jaw 1 bone), encouraged experimentation, drew anatomy accurately
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What was vesalius's book about?
went against Galens ideas/ first accurate drawing and description of human body/ publish 1945 on printing press
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What factors helped Vesalius succeed ?
Religion (churches power decreased), Government (city law provide bodies), experimentation (dissected bodies), chance (dad was doctor and grew up in open mined society), communication/ technology (book widely spread due to printing press)
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Why was vesalius's ideas limited at the time?
people still supported church and Galen (resisted chanllenge), he didn't provided answers of how the body worked (so couldn't replace Galen)
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How did Vesalius's work affect medical training?
His book's were read, so doctors were trained on correct knowledge (no need for dissection with vesalius's drawings)
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Describe what William Harvey found:
Blood is pumped in one direction (He showed this by trying to pump blood the wrong way), heart is like a mecanical water pump, he calculated the amount of blood pumped around the body proves blood must circulate
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What was 1 problem with his work?
Capillaries were too small to see (until 1661), so it looked like blood didn't travel to places which did bleed
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What could be gotten from William Harvey's work?
Experimentation is good, Galen is wrong, people who lose blood need a blood transfusion
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Why was Harvey's work limited at the time?
ordinary people didn't care- as it wasn't about treating illnesses, people didn't believe him- until microscopes could see capillaries, some people still believed Galen- even though Harvey proved him wrong
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Give 4 examples of change between middle ages and renaissance:
Printing press (allowed for ideas to be spread), Mechanical pump was invented (Harvey used this to amke some of his dicoveries), church's power decreased (dissections could happen), microscopes were invented
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Give 4 examples of continuity between the middle ages and the renaissance:
The church controlled education and medical training, only the rich could afford to go to a doctor, herbal remedies were used by the women of families (some of these worked), people believed that the supernatural affected their life
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