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| What factors affected medical progress? |
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| The Printing Press - means new ideas could spread more quickly.Warfare - Surgeons had the opportunity to experiment with new treatments and methods. Ancient Learning - Renewed interest in Ancient ideas which were challenged. Artists - Medical drawings were published in medical books which helped the understanding of anatomy. Weakening Power of the Church - This means less supernatural ideas and that dissection was now allowed. Machinery. |
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| He studied anatomy and became a Professor of Surgery. He dug up graves the get bodies for dissection (which was still not allowed). His most famous book was 'On the Fabric of the Human Body' - 1543. He encouraged dissections. |
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| He was originally a barber surgeon before he became an army surgeon. He is most famous for his work on ligatures but he also disproved the Bezoar stone isn't an effective treatment for poison in an experiment with a chef. |
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| How did Pare seal wounds? |
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| He developed ligatures to seal wounds. Before ligatures, a hot couterising iron was used but this would have been extremely painful. |
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| In battle, they ran out of oil (which was used to treat gunshot wounds) so he mixed an ointment of rose oil and egg yolk to treat his patients. |
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| He was a doctor who published 'An Anatomic Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood'. This scientifically proved the circulation of the blood. |
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| Why wasn't Harvey's work on the blood useful short term? |
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| Because blood transfusions couldn't be done successfully as blood groups weren't discovered until 1901. |
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| What was 'The King's Evil'? |
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| Scrofula (tuberculosis of the neck) was believed to be cured if the King or Queen of England or France touched the sufferer. Between 1660 and 1682, Charles II touched over 92,000 people. This is an example a supernatural cure used in the Renaissance. |
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