unit 1 lesson 4

Hippocrates believed in a balance of body liquids for ultimate health.   Black Bile was released if one was sick during the winter months.

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Religious law played a key part in the suppression of studying human anatomy for centuries beginning in Egyptian culture 1500B.C.

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The word Anatomy comes from Latin and roughly translated means the study of a structure.

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Hippocrates is known as the “Father of Medicine”

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As the popularity of anatomical studies grew in the 12th-17th centuries, acquiring bodies to study became difficult. Some resorted to murder or ¨Burking¨

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In 1832, the Wharburton Anatomy Act was passed. This allowed medical students to claim the bodies of criminals who were executed.

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Vesalius was credited with being the first anatomist to dissect, study, and record his findings on internal organs.

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The ¨Father of Anatomy¨ was also an infamous grave robber.

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John Hunter was an early anatomist whose claim to fame was dental anatomy.

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DaVinci and other artists believed that dissection was beneath their talents. So, many of these artists employed ¨Barber surgeons¨"while they sat in a ¨throne¨ and gave direction.

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