Homework - Year 9 Leigh

5/19/2014

Medicine Through Time - Vesalius & Harvey

Once again you will have a choice in your homework.

I would like you to complete the same set of choices but for Vesalius and Harvey.

1. Create an A4 poster demonstrating the work of Vesalius and Harvey.

2. Make a crossword of the key terms and phrases that you have used in the last lessons.

3. Create a comic strip demonstrating the techniques and methods used by Vesalius and Harvey (http://bitstrips.com/create/comic)

4. Create a mind map of the medical advancements made by Vesalius and Harvey

5. Answer the following questions on Vesalius and Harvey (1 side of A4 roughly)

Who made the greatest advancement to medical knowledge during the renaissance period?

3 Comments

Liam wyke

6/3/2014 05:19:38 pm

The discoverys were limited because people still heavily belived in gaelen, and anyone who challenged his theory's were laughed at even tho they were right, people thought people like Harvey were mad, this gave him a bad reputation wich ment even though it was proved people did not Belive it

Jonny Stevenson

6/3/2014 05:20:52 pm

Technology wasn't advanced so Harvey couldn't prove his theory because everyone thought he was mad.

Jonny Stevenson

6/9/2014 08:42:34 pm

During the reinassaunce period there was progression as books were being published and microscopes were being invented. William Harvey was an English physician who was the first to describe accurately how blood was pumped around the body by the heart. Harvey couldn't prove all his theories because everyone thought he was mad which was one of the main reasons why he had limited impact in the reinassaunce period. One of Harvey's main discoveries was the knowledge of the circulation around the body. He proved that the heart worked as a pump. Fabricius, who was fascinated by anatomy, recognised that the veins in the human body had one-way valves, but was puzzled as to their function. It was Harvey who took the foundation of Fabricius's teaching, and went on to solve the riddle of what part the valves played in the circulation of blood through the body. Andreas Vesalius, Flemish-born anatomist and doctor whose dissections of the human body helped to correct misconceptions dating from ancient times. Surgery and anatomy were then considered of little importance in comparison to the other branches of medicine. However, Vesalius believed that surgery had to be grounded in anatomy. Unusually, he always performed dissections himself and produced anatomical charts of the blood and nervous systems as a reference aid for his students, which were widely copied. In my opinion I think Harvey had more of an advancement for medical knowledge because he discovered the circulation around the body and the pumping of the heart which lead to new theories about the body.

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Medicine Through Time - Vesalius & Harvey

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