Renaissence

Question 1

andreas versailles

Answer 1

studied medicine and was a professor of anatomy and surgery
convinced anatomy was the best way to understand the human body and did his own dissections
wrote ‘the fabric of the human body’ he corrected over 300 of galen’s mistakes and argued importance of dissections rather than learning from books

Question 2

ambroise pare

Answer 2

a barber surgeon who knew lots from being an army surgeon
invented a new way of sealing wounds on the battlefield and used ligatures to tire blood vessels together for the first time

Question 3

william harvey

Answer 3

studied medicine became a physician
instrested in physiology (workings of human body) particularly blood
using expiriments found that blood circulated round the body using arteries and veins with valves he also showed that the heart acted as a pump for this, his understanding of the circulatory system is the basis of what we know today but it took many years for it to be accepted

Question 4

james lind

Answer 4

carried out the first ever clinical trials (research studies with human participants)
he found that scurvy could be cured by eating fresh fruit and vegetables particularly citrus fruit

Question 5

john hunter

Answer 5

scottish surgeon was a successful doctor
heavily instructed in dissection and anatomy
became an army surgeon and saw casualties at war (had more weapons at this time and more destructive needed better training to cope with this)
set up a practice which transited many new doctors including edward jenner
he is known as ‘father of scientific surgery’

Question 6

edward jenner

Answer 6

he inoculated patients as a doctor
he had heard that milkmaids didn’t catch smallpox and he was determined to find out why as ti must make them immune he found that they did catch cowpox a weakened version he experimented and proved this was true b y injecting it - he called this vaccination