Medicine in the Early Modern Period 1500-1700
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- 5. Galen was not able to carry out dissections on human corpses due to the restriction of the Church. What did he use instead?
- 6. This was the name given to the less expensive sheets of medical information that medical students could buy if they could not afford the whole book.
- 7. There were still many respected physicians who continued to believe the work of this Greek physician.
- 8. This was the revolutionary invention that led to medical books being easily and more cheaply shared (two words)
- 9. This term means the study of the human body such as its bones, organs and muscles
- 10. Galen had wrongfully believed that this liquid entered the the heart through invisible holes.
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- 1. This was a belief very popular at the time. People believed they controlled their body and their life rather than God.
- 2. This famous English University was respected for how it taught medicine and was one of the first to open a anatomy theatre in the 1570s.
- 3. This group of people would be seen as inferior to physicians as it was they that carried out operations.
- 4. This term means the cutting into and exploration of a dead body.