chapter 4- the impact of the Renaissance

• what did Harvey do ?

  • observed slow beating hearts, dissected & studied human hearts
  • experimented pumping liquid the wrong way through veins to prove that blood could only go one way
  • challenged galens idea that blood spontaneously generated and rather circulated
  • allowed organ transports & blood transfusions
• what happened to Harvey's ideas ?

  they were ignored and criticised
• what did paré do ?

  • designed false limbs for wounded soldiers
  • invented the 'crows beak clamp' making ligatures less painful
  • gunshot wounds were originally burned with hot oil than a cream was applied
  • Paré ran out of oil and just used the cream and his patients healed quicker
• what was the cream for gunshot wounds made of ?

  • rose oil
  • egg white
  • turpentine
• what did versalius do ?

  • questioned galens opinions
  • wrote a book that included an accurate diagram of the human body and galens mistakes were fixed e.g the human breastbone has 3 parts not 7
  • did dissections and believed that how medical students should learn
  • discovered stuff about the anatomy and was put into medical manuals
• how did the renaissance effect medicine ?

  • new ideas spread quickly as printing became possible
  • interests in art allowed the human body to be seen in more detail
  • explorers discovered America and bought back new food & medicine
  • anatomical knowledge was transformed
• what problems did versalius face ?

  much criticism for saying Galen was wrong