surgery and physiology

• Who was Pare?


  a French army surgeon
• How were gunshot wounds treated before Pare?

  -hot oil

  -caused many infections/deaths from shock

  -wounds cauterised to stop bleeding
• how did pare improve gunshot wounds treatment?

  -during French battle in 1537,improvised and used rose oil, egg white and turpentine

  -worked well and wounds healed quick
• how did pare prevent blood loss during amputations?

  -tied ligatures around individual blood vessels to stop bleeding
• how did pare help amputees|?

  created false limbs for soldiers
• how did pare contribute to medical progress in the UK?

  -translated Vesalius-used work in his book "work of surgery"

  -Number of UK surgeons followed his methods

  -English version of his book gave to library of barber surgeons
• who was William Harvey?

  figured out how blood circulates through the body

  english dr
• how did Harvey challenge galens work?

  -Galen believed new blood was being made in the liver and was burned as fuel
• how did Harvey discover blood circulation?

  -dissected human hearts

  -demonstrated how blood pumped in hearts

  used valves to show how blood could only flow one way
• why was there resistance to harveys discoveries?

  -Drs reluctant to believe theories because it contradicted Galen

  -he didn't know why blood needed to circulate, or why veins/arteries were different some rejected his ideas
• What was the significance of Harveys work?

  -first step towards blood transfusions

  -one of first to question Galen

  =today, understanding blood leads to quicker diagnosing and testing