People

• Who encouraged direct observation?

  Thomas Sydenham
• What did religious people believe could cure?


  Many believed the King's royal touch could cure - over 92,000 visited
• Who were quacks?

  Quacks were travelling salesmen who sold medicines
• Who advocated letting nature take its course?

  Thomas Sydenham - classified scarlet fever
• What did Vesalius do?

  He robbed graves and dissected bodies
• Who did Vesalius prove wrong?

  Galen - proved his mistakes about the heart, human jaw and breastbone
• What did Vesalius publish?


  He published ‘ Fabric of the Human Body ‘ in 1543
• What did Harvey do?

  He used scientific methods to discover blood circulation around the body from the heart