Medicine of the renaissance

Jose Munoz5002390

English IV 9-109 April 2011

Fig 1. William Harvey and Andreas Vesalius are dissecting

• First signs of surgery.

• Surgery was done in public to educate others.

• Usually performed on the sick and or dead.

Fig 2. The woodcut from Vesalius’s book shows an operating table and various surgical instruments used in the16th century.

• first surgery tools.

• consisted of knifes, hooks, and scissors.

• all were hand operated.

Fig 3. 16th-century woodcut, depicting (right) medical treatment of a skin disease and (left) blood letting, by barber surgeons in a barber shop

• removing the blood from the body was believe to heal the host.

• chicken poxs was incurable during the middle ages most host died.

• anybody was considered a “doctor”

Fig 4. Man having an amputated leg being replaced with a wooden one.

•This man is having his damaged leg amputated.

•It is being replaced by a wooden leg.

•Most people having surgery suffered massive amounts of blood loss

Fig 5.

•He is getting his wounds healed from war.

•Took a shot in the head and survived while most did not, also took a bullet to his arm.

Fig 6. dead man as experiment.

•Dead people were used as experiment surgeries.

•This man is dead and is having arm surgery.

• students are learning from this.

Fig 7 "Removing the fool’s stone."

•This woman is insane.

• they are driving an ice pick to her head.

• with hopes that she will go back to “normal.”

• most were not crazy just had a different point of view.

Fig 8. Early treatments to "cure" disability were often brutal. Versions of the tranquilizer chair can still be found in some institutions.

• mental ill patients were isolated from the outside world.

• many were thought to be possessed by demons.

• they were strapped to chairs and were blinded.

• they were also drugged.

Fig 9. 15th-century manuscript illumination of a public dissection

• anesthesia did not exist in the middle ages therefore patients had surgery while being awake.

• This man had abdominal surgery.

• it was too painful to survive.

Fig 10. Ambroise Pare: Surgery Acquires Stature

• another example of surgery without anesthesia.

• the patient is being held down to bare the pain.

• this is what a typical surgery room looked like in the middle ages.

Fig 11. woman giving birth

• women giving birth during the middle ages resulted in more deaths than births.

• many women died due to the fact that epidurals did not exist.

• few made it to be alive along with their babies.

Fig 12. October 1347, Black Death Ravages Europe.

• the bubonic plague was one of the major reasons why people died.

• no hospitals meant no help.

• many did not know the origin of the disease.

Fig 13. variety of spices and herbs.

• during the middle ages many relied on spices to prevent disease.

• they were brewed and drank.

• some worked while others fail.

• they ranged from cinnamon to thyme and sage.

Fig 14. leeches used for medical purposes.

• leeches were used for medical purposes.

• they believed the leeches would drain the illness.

• all they did was kill the host faster due to dramatic blood loss.

Fig 15. Douche Bath in Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, 1868

• doctors during the middle ages thought that the insane were half asleep.

• thinking that cold water would wake them up.

• many insane patients died from many unnecessary procedures.

Fig 16. 1565 Opus Chirurgicum, depicting a Renaissance hospital

• one of the first middle ages hospitals.

• very crowded not many hospitals.

• an easy way to spread more diseases easily.

• usually one or two doctors per hospital.

Fig 17. irony of how the news got spread.

• showing irony.

• the writer of the news paper fell asleep therefore not being able to write the news and warn people of the diseases.

• resulting in more deaths.

Fig 18, turning their backs on god.

• many sick people turned their backs on god and doctors.

• they turned to the devil and occults as their last resort.

• many sick people sold their souls and ended up dying either way.

Fig 19. medieval doctor.

• this is what a medieval doctor looked like.

• they wore the mask to prevent breathing in the diseases.

• inside the mask were spices and plants the blocked the disease.

• this is what most of the sick people saw before expiring.

Fig 20. human anatomy

• many human bodies were preserved or mummified so doctors can study the human body through out its stages.

• they were real human corpses.

• this is how doctors populated.

Fig 21. “magical relics”

• relics and diamonds were sold as well being charms.

• many were rip offs and never worked.

• they only worked for the “believers”

• they were expensive.

Fig 22. leg surgery.

• this man is having leg surgery.

•He is getting metal poles put inside of him to be able to walk again.

• painful and expensive many people would take the risk.

• the metal often gave them mercury in their blood killing them eventually.

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