Dark Ages, Middle Ages&Reniassance
Victoria Bartell, Tamera Robinson, Logan Mclaughlin
Dark Ages
- Superstition crept back
- Believed disease was punishment from gods
- Performed ceremonies as healing practices
- Witch Doctors
- Monks
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7HJoB_ZO8
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Middle Ages
- Renewed interest in medical practices
- Arab physicians used chemistry to advance pharmacology
- Arabs began requiring physicians to pass examinations and obtain licenses
- Hospitals were created
- Bloodletting and leeches were used to drain blood
- French Barbers were used as surgeons
- No antiseptics
- Rhazes
- Theodoric Borgognoni (created the way of treating cuts, instead of leaving it and proved Greek theories wrong)
- Bubonic plague killed 75% of the population
Video:
http://www.teachertube.com/video/health-and-medicine-in-medieval-times-109331
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Some Practices of the Middle Ages
Renaissance
- Invention of the printing press
- 1st anatomy book
- Andreas Vesalius
- Michelangelo
- Leonardo Da Vinci (important people)
- Believed things worked around the body, and blood
- William Harvey (health care worker)
- Dissection (trend) which led to proving Leonardo's drawings accurately of the human body
Quotes:
- "Too much sanity may be madness. And madness of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be." Miguel de Cervantes
- "While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning to die." Leonardo Da Vinci
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