AQA GCSE History:Medicine- Renaissance Class Notes
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A class notes made by me of AQA GCSE Medicine: Renaissance Medicine. These notes managed to get me a grade 8 on my AQA History GCSE in 2022. All notes have been made using class notes, teacher notes and AQA History guides. All notes that i have made are Dyslexia friendly, are colourful and easy to ...
Renaissance Medicine
The consequences of Renaissance
- New lands- explorers and merchants used more accurate maps, discovered
the Americas and brought back new foods and medicines
- Printing- new ideas spread quickly as well as those of the ancient world
- Art- this showed the human body in realistic details
- New inventions- technology such as gunpowder caused new type of wounds
- New learning- a more scientific approach to learning involving observation,
hypothesis, experimenting and questioning
The work of Vesalius
Before Vesalius-
- dissections were done to prove Galen was right, not to challenge him,
- Galen’s words were read while an assistant did the dissections.
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
- Was Belgian and studied in Paris where he learned Galen’s anatomy
- As Professor of Surgery at the University of Padua in Italy, he began to
question Galen’s opinions
Vesalius’s book The Fabric of the Human Body (1543)
- Was a beautifully illustrated, very accurate textbook based on dissections and
observations of the human body.
- Correcting Galen’s mistakes because he dissected animals
- Provided proof of Galen’s mistakes, for example the breastbone in a human
being has 3 parts, not 7 as in an ape.
Vesalius’s work
- He did the dissections himself
- He said medical students should learn from dissection
Reaction to Vesalius
- He was criticised for saying Galen was wrong
- He had to leave his job in Padua and later became a doctor for the Emperor
Charles 5th.
Vesalius’ contribution to medical progress in England
- In 1545 Thomas Geminus copied Vesalius' illustrations and put them in a
manual for barber-surgeons, called Compendiosa.
- He added text from de Mondeville’s Surgery (1312)
- Compendiosa was very popular in England, and 3 editions were published
between 1545 and 1559
, Vesalius: an assessment
- Vesalius’ work overturned centuries of belief that Galen’s study of anatomy
was correct.
- He was a Renaissance approach because his work was based on
examination of the human body itself.
- Vesalius transformed anatomical knowledge.
- Although Vesalius’ work did not lead to any medical cures, it was the basis for
better treatments in the future.
- Vesalius showed others how to do proper dissections and famous 16th
century anatomists followed his approach.
Renaissance surgery and physiology
Ambroise Paré (1510-1590) was the most famous Renaissance surgeon in Europe
and published several books about his work. He made several discoveries
Before Paré’s discoveries Paré’s discoveries After Paré’s discoveries
Gunshot wounds were 1537- Paré ran out of hot oil so Paré’s patients' wounds
thought to be poisonous and he improvised and just used the healed well. He wrote a book
were burned out using cream. He challenged accepted about treating wounds
boiling oil; then a cream of practice based on observation (1545).
rose oil, egg white and and experimentation.
turpentine was applied.
Wounds were cauterised to Paré used Galen’s method of The ligature was less painful
stop bleeding. tying blood vessels with ligatures but was slower and could
or thread. He invented the introduce infection; it also
‘crow’s beak clamp’ to halt took longer to use in
bleeding. battlefield surgery.
Paré did many amputations. He designed false limbs for He included drawings of the
wounded soldiers. false limbs in his book.
Paré’s contribution to medical progress in England
- Paré translated the work of Andreas Vesalius and used his work in his famous
Works on Surgery (1575)
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