OPTOM 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Andreas Vesalius, Vitreous Body, Optometry
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Hippocrates, father of medicine : he thought there were a real cause to diseases, humoral theory; physical causes rather than demons, epidemiology: documented sign and symptoms and analyzed possible causes and associations, hippocratic oath ethical principles. History of spectacles: didn"t really need the spectacles because didn"t know/have to read. Couching to remove cataracts: the lens of your eye gets cloudy, can"t see through it, therefore. Can lead to infection, blindness, disease transmission, ew painful, can"t focus light. Renaissance period: represents the end of the dark and middle ages and the beginning of times of medical and scientific discoveries as well as cultural advancements. Andreas vesalius: founder of modern anatomy, professor of surgery and anatomy at age of 23, vesalius" drawings: skeletal, muscular, etc. Anesthesia: there was a lot of pain and infection that came with surgery, so anesthesia came about to help with pain, ether frolics and laughing gas parties were popular.
