1.2b The Birth of Modern Medicine

Flashcards covering key figures, texts, and scientific developments from the lecture notes on The Birth of Modern Medicine.

Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon)

Jewish physician who wrote 10 influential medical texts and served as physician to Egyptian sultan, Saladin.

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

Physician from the Muslim world known as "The Galen of Islam" who combined Galen and Aristotle's findings with original discoveries and wrote The Canon of Medicine.

The Canon of Medicine

Medical text written by Avicenna (Ibn Sina) that was used in medical schools for 500 years.

Andreas Vesalius

Physician who performed his own dissections rather than having barber-surgeons dissect after the Catholic Church relaxed restrictions on cadavers, and published the first atlas of anatomy in 1543.

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

First atlas of anatomy (On the Structure of the Human Body) published by Andreas Vesalius in 1543.

William Harvey

Early physiologist whose contributions represent the birth of experimental physiology; published De Motu Cordis in 1628 and was the first to realize blood flows out from heart and back to it again.

De Motu Cordis

Book published by William Harvey in 1628 (On the Motion of the Heart) detailing how blood flows out from the heart and back to it again.

micheal Servetus

Scientist also given credit for realizing blood flows out from heart and back to it again.

Galileo

Scientist who patented the compound microscope (a tube with ocular lens and objective lens) as a by-product of work with telescopes, though he didn't use it for studying biological material.

marallo malpighi

First scientist to use the compound microscope to study biological material, observing blood cells, capillaries, and capillary blood flow.

Robert Hooke

Scientist who made many improvements to the compound microscope (inventing specimen stage, illuminator, coarse and fine focus controls), was first to see and name "cells", and published Micrographia in 1665.

Micrographia

First comprehensive book of microscopy, published by Robert Hooke in 1665.