Key individuals during renaissance for medicine

Ambroise Paré

He was a French army surgeon. In 1537, he ran out of hot oil and used cream to heal wounds. He promotes ligatures, designed the bee de corbin to stop bleeding, and made fake limbs

William Clowe

The surgeon of Queen Elizabeth who built on Paré’s knowledge and discovered the treating burns with onion in 1596

Andreas Vesalius

He was a professor who did dissections of the human body and found out that Galen was wrong about many things as he did animal dissections. He found that the human jaw had one bone not two and that there were no holes in the septem of the heart. He shared this in his lectures and book. Helped development of surgery

Realdo Columbo

He said that blood moved through the veins and arteries

Fabricius

He proved that there were valves in the veins

William Harvey

From 1616, he observed and dissected human and animal hearts to understand how themicles worked. He proved that blood only flows in one direction. He found that blood circulted but did not know why

Malpighi

In 1661, he used microscopes to discover capillaries proofing that Harvey was correct

Professor Hofmann

He watched Harvey demonstrated his theory but dismissed his calculations about how much blood is in the body as ‘the mere trick of an accountant’

Lady Johanna St John

Grew many of her herbs and compiled a recipe book of cures. She collected successful remedies from her friends in London and made medicine from it

James Lind

Came up a cure for scurvy by drinking lime in 1753

King Charles II

He receives 58 drugs, was purged, bled, blistered, and cauterised and died. He banned all public gatherings in 1666

Thomas Sydenham

Advocated for a scientific and restrained approach. He emphasised observation and practice experience rather than relying on books. Introduced laudnum for pain relief and iron for anaemia

Fabricus

He had to restrain his patients so they didn't run away from the pain of surgery without anaesthetics

John Hunter

He emphasised observations to his students and preserved over 3000 anatomical specimens. He proved that gonorrhea and syphillis were different diseases. In 1785, a man with aneurysm was meant to have his leg amputated but Hunger tied off the arteries and saved his leg

Edward jenner

He heard that milkmaids who caught cowpox was protected against smallpox and experimented with inserting cowpox into patients 16 times a week and none of them eacged to smallpox. He published his findings but couldn't explain how it worked.