Renaissance Medicine Flashcards
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Renaissance Britain
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Means ‘re-birth’- between 1500-1700
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Royal Society founded in
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1662
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1685
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King Charles II dies
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1543
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Vesalius publishes, ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’
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1628
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Harvey publishes, ‘An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood’
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Thomas Sydenham
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Founded Royal Society, groundbreaking for using observation over theory
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King’s Touch
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A ‘touch’ by the king supposed to cure disease
8
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Vesalius
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- dissected bodies
- disproved many of Galen’s mistakes
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Harvey
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- Discovered circulation of blood around the body
- His book, ‘Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood’ in 1628 officials ended Galen’s ideas
- Proved the Heart pumped blood
- Surgery developed after his discovery
