Renaissance Medicine

By:

Marco Caceres

The First Studies of Medicine in The Renaissance

Medicine was usually dominant by the teachings of the church by more and more physicians found out more stuff about the human body.

Most of these physicians read books from Arabic and translated medical text and began to study it in a more scientific way.

Andreas Vesalius and Leonardo Da Vinci where the first people to Distinct and draw anatomical drawings of the human bodies.

This helped in understanding the human body and its organs a lot better.

Leonardo da Vinci made detailed drawings from human

bodies that he dissected.

What They Used to Experiment On

The church did not alloy the dissection of ‘God fearing bodies’ so they used to dissect bodies of criminals and sinners.

When doctors started to see these dissections they started to learn more and more about anatomy.

Sometime the criminals that they dissected were still alive at the begging of the dissection for there punishment.

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When they were experimenting on the human bodies

Early Beliefs

Most of the Arabic pharmaceutical practices were studied and improved, and medicines like “laudanum" were main to stop or maintain the pain.

Most doctors in the renaissance began to explore the spread of deadly diseases. 

Many of their discoveries corrected many of the problems errors that had gone and undetected for centuries and were s replaced by paintings.

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Early beliefs of some people

There Beliefs During the renaissance

the human body was said to be a regarded creation of god.

The church use to folly the Greeks ancient rule of the 4 Humors.

Sickness is said to be a imbalanced in humor and treatment.

Then if you vomited and bleed and it was said to be the 4 humors balancing out again.

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Different people different religions

Doctors on the Battlefields Many surgical procedures

were modified, especially for the battlefields experiences.

Doctors began to experiment with many ways to make the suffering of their patients more ease.

A doctor named Amboise Pare revolutionized surgery when he began to use ligatures to stop bleeding wounds instead of stopping them with boiling oil or red-hot pokers. 

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Ambosie Pare doing surgery on the battle

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Medicine The most valuable item for

man is medicine because without medicine almost the whole world will die

One of the physicians in England got a stimulating shad of Italy's new wealth

A man named Padua even paid one of them two thousand ducats (dollars) a year to serve as his own personal doctor, while living him free of chare for his private practice

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Some medicines also called herbs

Galen’s Ideas During the renaissance the field

of medicine made some big strides for medical advances, but some doctors still held tightly to ideas of Galen

In many parts,medical progress was spurred on by the appearance in the 14th century of the black death and in the 15th century with the syphilis

Neither disease had been known to Galen, and renaissance doctors there were forced to experiment if they wanted to find treatments

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This was one of his pictures

De Humani By keeping an open mined and

having a eye for detail, the renaissance anatomist improved and also corrected Galens work

In 1543 a man named Vesalius Published De Humani Corporis Fabrica; it was a structure of the human body

On the picture he described about all of his findings

With the picture was some detailed illustration and text that was accurately woodcut

De Humani quickly became the standard human anatomy

text of its time.

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This is De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Women with Medicines

For women in the renaissance era, they had to give birth without any piles that would take the pain of relax you they did it right then and there.

For some people (like the rich ones) got medical help by doctors because they were able to afford them

While peasants and servants had this special stool that they sat on and had the baby there

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This is the Birthing Chair

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