Renaissance

• What did Vesalius publish his book “On the Fabric of the Human Body”?

  1543
• Andreas Vesalius

  A doctor who made a breakthrough in anatomy
• Vesalius

  • Respected Galen's work but proved, through dissecting bodies, that Galen could be wrong
• What was Andreas Vesalius’ breakthrough?

  Vesalius identified aprox. 300 mistakes in Galen’s work e.g. The human jaw is made from 1 bone not 2
• Were there any downsides to Vesalius’ work?

  • It didn’t matter how accurate anatomy was since surgery was still very painful and dangerous
  • Vesalius still had to convince doctors/physicians not to believe the ideas of Galen that lasted for thousands of years
• When did the Great Plague strike London?

  1665
• How many people died of the plague in London alone?

  100,000 Londoners died
• Why did some people still believe in the Four Humours in 1665?

  It had not been replaced with any proven alternative, nobody knew for certain what caused disease in general.
• When and what book did Thomas Sydenham publish?

  In 1628, Harvey published all his findings in a book called, “An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals”