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.

-O T H E R K E Y P E O P L E

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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Web. 29 Feb. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventive_medicine>.

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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)