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Renaissance medicine - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Doctors inspired: challenge old ideas and investigate for themselves
      - Dissection was legalised: previously banned by the church
      - New subject in curriculum: anatomy and iatrochemistry were introduced to medical curriculum
      - Trainee doctors had better access for medical books because of printing press
      - Introduction of iatrochemistry: introduction of new ingredients. Apothecary's now need a license
      - Protestantism: rejected decorated churches // Artists out of work so they created detailed medical drawings
      - Education increased: wars were fought with new technology, so new wounds, more surgery was required
    - - Physicians still trained at university: training courses changed very little, mostly theory work
      - Very little practical, hands-on training
      - Surgeons & apothecaries: cared for those unable to afford a physician
      - Apothecaries continued to mix remedies & surgeons carried out simple operations
  - - - Many hospital began to re-open without a religious sponsor
      - pest houses started to pen: they became speacialised to specific diseases
      - Good diet whilst in hospital: visited by a physician twice a day and hospitals started to have their own pharamcies
      - Hospital now offered a much needed service: tradition hospitals would not admit patients who were contageous
      - Hospital began to change: record suggest many peole went to hospitals with wounds and curable diseases and they didn't spend long there - got better
    - - Women played an important role
      - Women were popular as they were cheaper
      - most ill people still cared for at home
- - - - Vena cava wasn't next to the liver
      - Men & women had the same no. ribs
      - lower jaw in one part not two
      - Human liver didn't have 5 separate lobes
    - - Work greatly inspired others
      - caused controversy because he challenged the ideas of Galen
      - His work heavily appeared in medical texts
      - Angered traditional physicians who argued the human body hadn't changed since the ideas of Galen
      - anatomy became the central part of study of medicine & doctor were encouraged to carry out dissections for themselves
  - - - science & tech
        
        Fire engines had mechanical pumps to provide water to put out fires, inspiring Harvey to look at how the heart worked
        
        He used modern scientific methods, reading other's work, carrying out experiments & observing results
      - attitudes in society
        
        People began to search for rational explanations
        
        Harvey wanted to improve Galen's theories
        
        more interest in sciece and solving the puzzles of the human body
      - individuals & institutions
        
        Harvey was employed by Charles I, which gave him credibility
        
        Many people had heard of Harvey's work
        
        Vesalius proved some of Galen's theories wrong making it easier for others to do the same
        
        Church was declining in power so, Harvey became more critical of Galen's teachngs
      - communication
        
        Harvey had to read the work of other doctors & use their work to build up his theory
    - - had little practical use in treatment
      - most doctors ignored / critisised
      - encouraged others to experiment
      - Work only appeared in universities in 1673
      - Begining of modern physiology
      - Didn't make anybody better