Harvey's Contribution to Medical Knowledge During the Renaissance Period

Harvey's Contribution to Medical Knowledge During the Renaissance Period

In my opinion William Harvey did contribute the most to medical

knowledge in the Renaissance period. I believe this for many reasons;

William Harvey actually put all of the pieces (previous known

knowledge about the Circuitry system) together and looked at the whole

picture, and discovered correctly how it worked.

There four main doctors who contributed most to medical knowledge,

these are Vesalius, Columbo, Frabricius and Harvey. All of these men

studied at the University in Peadua, Italy, this at the time was the

greatest medical centre in the world. Three of who became professor of

Anatomy and succeeded each other, and become very successful, Harvey

was actually youngest of these men.

Vesalius contribute to medical knowledge was the fact about there

being no holes in the Septum, which Galen had said there were holes.

Galen's work was the most influential material at that time, no doctor

disagreed with it usually in fear of the church but Vesalius was the

first to disagree with Galen. This did pave the way for other doctors

such as Columbo and Harvey to express their views and give them the

courage to go against tradition. Though the mass of knowledge

contributed by Vesalius was by no means half no way near as much as

Harvey who discovered how a whole system functioned. Vesalius

discovery about the heart did not actually change the way treatments

were given either, while Harvey's discovery stop blood letting for

example as he proved it was actually damaging, Harvey actually proved

Vesalius wrong in certain counts as well. Columbo was an Italian

discovered a much bigger discovery than Vesalius was that the blood

moves viva the lungs, (oxygenated the blood). This was a very big

discovery as it showed the blood had some connection with our

breathing. Harvey used Columbo's discovery, and figured how the blood

flowed. Frabricius comes directly after Columbo (his successor),

Frabricius discovers that the Heart contained Valves, but he did not

know what they did, or how they functioned and what they effected.