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The Renaissance (Vesalius (Anatomical knowledge (Better knowledge of body…
The Renaissance
Vesalius
Anatomical knowledge
Better knowledge of body through human dissections (previously criminals and now corpse), very significant
Challenging Galen
Proved Galen wrong, info more accurate. Some physicians were angry, moderately significant
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Publishing Fabrica
Allowed medical professors to see human body, improved education. Significant
Practical use
Helped people in the future about human body, didn't have immediate impact so significance is moderately
Harvey
Theorised that there is two types of blood, oxygenated and de-oxgenated
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Did dissections on humans unlike Galen, had proof
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Printing Press
Ideas about medicine, more accurate
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Treatments
Alchemy - early form of Chemistry, more of a scientific approach compared to Middle Ages
New herbs, cinnamon, tobacco, metals, tea, coffee, nutmeg (from New World, known as America were useful)
guaic wood, mercury, sweating didn't work so not effective at all
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New Ideas
Still believed in Miasma, still used remedies/cures. However, 4 humours was becoming less popular. Ideas about medicine adapting, but practise of medicine didn't change