Surgery and Anatomy

Rennaisance
1. Vesalius
  1. Fabric of the human body
  2. Padua: regular supply of bodies
  3. Stole dead bodies
  4. Proved Galen wrong
2. Pare
  1. Ligatures
  2. Cauterisation: boiling oil
  3. Ligaments: rose oil, turpentine and egg yolk
3. Harvey
  1. Proved Galen wrong: blood being used up
  2. 1628: book about blood
  3. Showed blood flows around body
Prehistoric
1. Trephanning
2. Encased wounds in mud
3. Shamen
Ancient Egypt
1. Specialised equipment
2. Doctors were excellent at bandaging
3. Mummification
Ancient Greece
1. Experts in practical first aid
2. Learned about healing bones
3. Operated inside body
Ancient Rome
1. Gladiators: Surgical skills
2. GALEN
  1. Dogs and Humans similar bones.
  2. Thought blood was created
  3. Thought jaw was 2bones
  4. Mistakes about the blood vessels in the brain
Medieval
1. Barber-surgeons
2. Antiseptics from: mandrake root, opium, gall of boar and hemlock
19th & 20th Century
1. 1847: Simpson, Chloroform
2. 1928:Fleming, Penicillin

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