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medicine
hippocrates
the four humours: phlegm, blood, yellow bile and black bile
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medieval town health
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church: bathroom- clean and all waste went in the river. infirmary: put all of the ill together away from the healthy.
wells: clean water for cleaning and drinking
John Hunter
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talent for dissection and research. He mainly experimented, observed and dissected
jobs: army surgeon, kings surgeon (george III), payed physician meant he got money for research
dissection: nature of disease, infection, cancer and circulation of blood.
he did self experiments: gave himself gonorrhea to see if he could cure himself. he tied off blood vessels to cure an aneurism instead of amputating
significance: opened a practice and taught hundreds of surgeons; collected specimens, could be conserved and he studied the anatomy
andreas versalius, 1514-64
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books: the fabric of the human body, compendiosa. in the books he showed the whole body
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contribution: showed how to successfully dissect. Henry VIII 1540 allowed 4 dissections and influenced
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the renaissance
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the printing press allowed information to be shared easier and quicker new style of art-more detailed images, new inventions and gunpowder
medieval vs renaissance; medieval: only allowed to dissect to prove Galen, only looked at organs, information passed world of mouth and inaccurate knowledge with false and basic pictures
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edward jenner
-created vaccination: he got cowpox pus and put it in a cut in James' arm. after six weeks he put a small part of smallpox in his arm the same way. he observed and tested it in hundreds of others. Long term: smallpox was eradicated
-opposition: the people who performed inoculation lost lots of money. william woodville and george pearson tried the vaccine and the patient died because of contaminated equipment. he wasn't a city doctor so there was many questions
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treatment
bloodletting; herbs & potions; vomiting; defecating; charms, pendants; tobacco (thought to cure the plague); cinchona tree (malaria treatment); opium as a painkiller; lemons and limes
who to go to for treatment: barber surgeon, wise woman, apothecary, quack or physician