Renesass' medicine
Title: Renesass' medicine
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Renesass' medicine
Medicine of the Renaissance
A new scientific spirit developed during the Renaissance, the great cultural
movement that swept across Western Europe from about the 1300's to the 1600's. Before
this time, most societies had strictly limited the practice of dissecting human corpses for
scientific study. But laws against dissection were relaxed during the Renaissance. As a
result, the first study of the human body began.
During the late 1400’s and early 1500’s, the italian artist …showed first 75 words of 193 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 193 total…also performed numberous
disections. Veslius used his findings to write the first scientific textbook on human
anatomy, a work called, on the structure of the human body. The book gradually replaced
the texts of Galen and Avicenna.
A french army doctot Ambroise Pare improved surgical techniques to such an
extent that he is considered the father of modern surgury. He opposed the commom
practice of cauterizing (burning) wounds with Burning oil to precent infection.
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