History of Science 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Rose Oil, Putrefaction, Andreas Vesalius

• School: Western University
• Department: History of Science
• Course: History of Science 2220
• Professor: Dorotea Gucciardo

Document Summary

Battlefields and blood: pain relief, sterilization technique, knowledge of anatomy, blood loss. Need to overcome before it can be modern. Today, there is a lot of innovated surgeries. The history leading up to this point was not always smooth. Surgery there were four key areas that needed to be developed before this would be called modern. When talking about preventing blood loss, we are speaking to 2 issues: stopping terrible bleed and an appreciation of different blood groups. Developed in one of the most prominent sergeants of this time. Son of the barber sergeants then he himself trained as one. Age of 19, was admitted to the hotel-dieu in paris where he was trained to be a barber sergeant and then became a barber sergeant for the arm. When he works in the army, he takes his experiences under sylvius with him. 1545 is when he starts working in the hotel dieu.