chapter 2- medical progress

• what did John of ardenerne do ?

  • set up a guild of surgeons
  • wrote a surgical manual
  • specialised in operations for anal abcesses
• what mondino de luzzi do ?

  • led new interest in the anatomy
  • wrote a dissection manual
• what did hugh of Lucca do ?

  • criticised the common view that pus was good
  • used wine to reduce infection
• what did guy de chauliac do ?

  • French surgeon
  • referenced Galen and Islam in his books
  • opposed Lucca's theory of preventing infection
• what did abulcasis do ?

  • wrote a 30 volume medical book
  • invented 26 new surgical instruments
  • made cauterisation popular
• what did ibn Al nafis do ?

  • concluded that Galen was wrong about how the heart worked
  • claimed that blood circulated via the lungs
• what did Avicenna do ?

  • wrote an encyclopedia of ancient Greek and Islamic medicine
  • listed properties of 760 drugs, anorexia & obesity
• what did rhazes do ?

  • discovered measles from smallpox
  • followed Galen but was critical
  • wrote 150 books
• how did Islam effect medicine ?

  • Baghdad became a centre of translation of Greek manuscripts into arabic
  • encouraged medical learning & discoveries
  • encouraged to discover new medicines or drugs
  • treat people with mental illness with compassion
  • valued Hippocratic and Galenic medicine
  • hospitals called bimaristans were meant for treating patients not just caring for them
• what were the issues of medicine ?

  • no painkillers for surgery
  • no idea that dirt carries disease
  • thought pus in a wound was good