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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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