Medicine of the Renaissance A new scientific spirit developed during the Renaissance, the great cultural movement that swept across Western Europe from about the 1300's to the 1600's. Before this time, most societies had strictly limited the practice of dissecting human corpses for scientific study. But laws against dissection were relaxed during the Renaissance. As a result, the first study of the human body began. During the late 1400’s and early 1500’s, the italian artist …showed first 75 words of 189 total…

…showed last 75 words of 189 total…performed numberous disections. Veslius used his findings to write the first scientific textbook on human anatomy, a work called, on the structure of the human body. The book gradually replaced the texts of Galen and Avicenna. A french army doctot Ambroise Pare improved surgical techniques to such an extent that he is considered the father of modern surgury. He opposed the commom practice of cauterizing (burning) wounds with Burning oil to precent infection. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**