Medicine Key Individuals

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Flashcards on Medicine Key Individuals, created by s.b on 13/05/2014.
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Hippocrates The Theory of the Four Humours, Hippocratic Corpus, Hippocratic Oath and Rational Thinking.
Galen He used dissection against the law to improve anatomy. However, he got a lot wrong for example he thought the jaw was in two pieces and that the liver made blood.
Johann Gutenberg Invented printing press (well brought it to Europe)- this accelerate how medicine ideas spread.
William Caxton Set up the first british printing press in Westminster Abbey.
Avicenna "Caonon of Medicine" bringing ancient ideas back to western europe.
Avenzoar Questioned Galen.
Lbn-al Nafis Blood goes through lungs - not known in the west.
Vesalius Andreus Anatomy in Paris and was allowed to perform dissection. "Fabric of the Human Body"- used diagrams -1543. No holes in septum and 1 bone in jaw bone.
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