Harvey or Pare or Vesalius

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.

1. He used turpentine, oil of roses and egg yolks.
2. He proved that Galen had made mistakes; this encouraged other people to find out more.
3. The veins, arteries and valves made a one way system through which the blood passed around the body.
4. In 1536, he was working as a French army surgeon on the battlefield.
5. The decline in the influence of the Roman Catholic Church meant that he was able to dissect bodies. He supported Galen’s belief that you had to learn from dissecting bodies not from reading books.
6. In 1628, he published a book ‘On the movement of the heart and blood in animals.’
7. In 1585 he wrote a book describing his discoveries. ‘The Apology and Treatise’ was written in French rather than in Latin. It was read by far more people than Latin books. This book was soon translated into many languages.
8. He discovered that Galen had errors but did not tell anyone at first.
9. His work was accurate and was printed, therefore widely available for training doctors. In included many detailed drawings of the human body Michelangelo.
10. His treatment of wounds was far more effective and enabled many soldiers to survive.
11. He showed that blood was pumped by the heart around the body and re-used.
12. At the time, the usual treatment for gunshot wounds was to chop off all moderate to severely damaged limbs and dip the stump in boiling oil. Small wounds were cauterised with a red-hot iron.
13. He used scientific method, measuring the flow of blood through the heart, experimenting on humans and animals.
14. Published ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’ in 1543.
15. The blood moved from the heart to the lungs.
16. He also began to tie up the arteries with silk thread (ligatures) instead of cauterising wounds. This stopped the patient bleeding to death. The threads had to be removed from the wound before infection set in
17. In 1536 he ran out of oil and so had to make-up something out of what was to hand.