Renaissance Medicine

By: CorrinBowman Period 6 Renaissance Medicine

Beginning of Medical Research ,[object Object]

Meanwhile, Arabs steadily progressed in their medical research, publishing many informative books, allowing English physicians to study anatomy in a broader, scientific way. ,[object Object], taken from Arabic writings, Renaissance pharmacists experimented with new plants developing treatments for several diseases. ,[object Object], lose its political and secular power that had for so long limited physicians in their medical research. Corrin/ http://www.bandoli.no/knowledge.htm, http://images.google. com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dl.ket.org/webmuseum/wm/paint/ auth/durer/doctors.jpg

The plague was unknown to even the most well-known pharmacists like Claudius Galen, forcing Renaissance doctors to experiment if they wanted to find treatments.

They were unsuccessful in halting the Black Death, but a German physician, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim discovered in 1503 that drinking mercury was an effective cure for syphilis, also a deadly disease.Corrin/ Art and Civilization: The Renaissance, http://mistigwaetru.org/MistgigWebPage/black-death.jpg

Herbal Medicine ,[object Object]

Pharmacists used the bark of the Quina tree which contained an ingredient called quinine to treat malaria. ,[object Object], many disorders. ,[object Object], medicinal properties, however pharmacists realized that they were in fact responsible for an enormous amount of deaths. ,[object Object], stomach, and for preventing hair from falling out. Corrin/ http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/abpi/history/history7.html, http://www.eso-garden.com/index.php?/weblog/C38/

Human Anatomy ,[object Object], so anatomists negotiated by using the bodies of criminals or “sinners”. ,[object Object], drawings based on dissection of human corpses by Anreas Vesalius. ,[object Object], Fabrica (On the Structure of the Human Body) containing hundreds of observations he made while dissecting the human body. Vesalius’ book contradicted many of Galen’s earlier anatomical discoveries. ,[object Object], allowed anatomists like Gabriel Fallopius and Michael Servetus to study more intimately certain parts of the body. Corrin/ http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=216145, http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/abpi/history/history7.html,http://images.google.com/ imgres?imgurl=http://www.leonardo-da-vinci-biography.com/images/leonardo-da-vinci- anatomy.4.jpg, http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://mr_sedivy.tripod.com/davinci/ anaw_10b.jpg

Surgery ,[object Object], in fact be fatal. ,[object Object], procedures included lancing a boil, setting a broken bone, dressing an ulcer or sore, blood-letting, cleaning and suturing a wound, rescuing a dislocated joint, and cautery (application of hot irons to various parts of the body creating ulcers that unwanted fluids could drain). ,[object Object], amount of anesthetics or sedatives causing the patient extreme pain. ,[object Object], removing a cataract included inserting a sharp instrument through the cornea and forcing the lens of the eye out of its capsule and down to the bottom of the eye. Corrin/ http://students.ou.edu/Y/Jason.S.Yousif-1/episode_3_medieval.html, http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/ wikipedia/commons/4/43/Augenoperation_1195.jpg

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