Medicine of the renaissance
Jose Munoz
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English IV 9-10
9 April 2011
• First signs of surgery.
• Surgery was done in public to
educate others.
• Usually performed on the sick
and or dead.
Fig 1. William Harvey and
Andreas Vesalius are
dissecting
• first surgery
tools.
• consisted of
knifes, hooks, and
scissors.
Fig 2. The woodcut from Vesalius’s book shows an
operating table and various surgical instruments
used in the16th century.
• all were hand
operated.
• removing the blood
from the body was
believe to heal the host.
• chicken poxs was
incurable during the
middle ages most host
died.
Fig 3. 16th-century woodcut, depicting (right) medical
treatment of a skin disease and (left) blood letting, by barber
surgeons in a barber shop
• anybody was
considered a “doctor”
•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 4. Man having an amputated leg being replaced with a
wooden one.
•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 5.
•Dead people were
used as experiment
surgeries.
•This man is dead and
is having arm surgery.
• students are learning
from this.
Fig 6. dead man as experiment.
•This woman is
insane.
• they are
driving an ice
pick to her head.
• with hopes
that she will go
back to “normal.”
Fig 7 "Removing the fool’s stone."
• most were not
crazy just had a
different point of
view.
• 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 8. Early treatments to "cure"
disability were often brutal. Versions of
the tranquilizer chair can still be found
in some institutions.
• anesthesia did
not exist in the
middle ages
therefore patients
had surgery while
being awake.
Fig 9. 15th-century manuscript illumination of a
public dissection
• This man had
abdominal
surgery.
• it was too
painful to survive.
• another example of
surgery without
anesthesia.
• the patient is being
held down to bare the
pain.
Fig 10. Ambroise Pare: Surgery Acquires Stature
• this is what a
typical surgery room
looked like in the
middle ages.
• 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.
Fig 11. woman giving birth
• few made it to be
alive along with their
babies.
• 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 12. October 1347, Black Death Ravages Europe.
• during the middle
ages many relied on
spices to prevent
disease.
• they were brewed
and drank.
Fig 13. variety of spices and
herbs.
• some worked
while others fail.
• they ranged from
cinnamon to thyme
and sage.
• leeches were
used for medical
purposes.
• they believed
the leeches would
drain the illness.
Fig 14. leeches used for medical purposes.
• all they did was
kill the host faster
due to dramatic
blood loss.
• 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 15. Douche Bath in Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane,
1868
• 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 16. 1565 Opus Chirurgicum, depicting a Renaissance
hospital
• 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 17. irony of how the news got
spread.
• many sick people
turned their backs on
god and doctors.
• they turned to the
devil and occults as
their last resort.
Fig 18, turning their
backs on god.
• many sick people sold
their souls and ended
up dying either way.
• 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 19. medieval doctor.
• many human
bodies were
preserved or
mummified so
doctors can
study the human
body through out
its stages.
Fig 20. human anatomy
• they were real
human corpses.
• this is how
doctors
populated.
• 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 21. “magical relics”
• 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.
Fig 22. leg surgery.
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