By: Chris Schulz and Tyler Coakley

Renaissance

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Leonardo performed many dissections to learn about human anatomy.

He recorded more than 750 drawings of his dissections

He drew the human skeleton and its parts, he drew the heart, the vascular system, the sex organs, and a fetus

LEONARDO DA VINCI

He took a persons arm and moved it to see how the muscles interact with each other

He took a deceased pregnant lady and cut her open to see the fetus

He was one of the biggest contributors to modern day medicine

He wrote all of his findings in Latin backwards so people couldn’t take his findings

During the medieval time period people thought disease was a punishment from God.

As the Bubonic plague struck killing priests people thought why would God kill his messengers, and trading with Islamic people made people come away from that thought and into the Renaissance era

Started focusing on life more then death

HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

E Q U I P M E N T A N D M E D I C I N E S U S E D

The renaissance saw some major advances in medical equipment due to there out-of-the-box thinking. One of the biggest inventions that helped people research diseases and illnesses was the micro scope. The printing press was made which really helped spread the news and awareness from all the information gathered. The first use of anesthesia was used in this time period to surgery patients.

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Girlamo Fracastoro in the early 1500’s discovered a new virulent infectious disease now called syphilis

Fracastoro also discovered that contagion spreads disease(1546)

Michael Servetus took part in anatomical dissections

Servetus formulated his concept of pulmonary circulation in 1546

He described circulation of blood in heart and lungs accurately

HEALTH PROBLEMS FACED

Venereal diseases like syphilis and gonorrhea were common directly responsible for the stopping of communal baths

Since the discontinuing of communal baths people had no hygiene because that was their hygiene

Other epidemic diseases became inexplicably more common in the sixteenth century, among them typhus, diphtheria, smallpox, and measles. In the north of Europe and among sailors, scurvy also increased in frequency, though neither cause nor cure was suggested.

MEDICAL TECHNIQUES

Surgery during the Renaissance came mostly from France thanks to Ambroise Pare

Treated gunshot wounds with boiling oil

Tested some soldiers with gunshots wounds by cleansing then dressing surprisingly they did better than boiling oil

MEDICAL TECHNIQUES CONT.

Pare reintroduced the ancient method of stopping hemorrhage by using ligatures and abandoned the cauterizing irons.

In 1554 Henri II made him a master surgeon (in spite of his poor education), and in 1561 he published his magnificent treatise A Universal Surgery, wherein many novel procedures and types of apparatus were presented

CULTURAL INFLUENCES

They began to move away from Greek and Arabic readings and began to focus mainly on Latin literature.

A gradual but widespread educational reform was happening

In politics the Renaissance contributed the development of the conventions of diplomacy.

One of the biggest changes was the artwork and its influences.

WORK CITED

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WORKS CITED CONT.

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (pg.99) Fourth Edition

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation revised edition (pg.310)

Great Events from History 1st edition The Renaissance & Early Modern Era(pg.120,pg. 479)

Great Events from History 2nd edition The Renaissance & Early Modern Era (pg.569, pg.586, pg.628)