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The Renaissance
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THE RENAISSANCE what were the factors which influenced change in the treatment of wounds is this period? Improved anatomical know-ledge in the Renaissance led to a better understanding of the body. The use of new, more powerful weapons in wartime created new problems for surgeons. Army surgeons were well used to performing amputations on the battlefield, although the amputees often died from loss of blood. Advances in the treatment of wounds were the result of a number of factors - warfare, chance discovery and the individual efforts of the French barber-surgeon, Ambroise Paré. Amputated limbs had traditionally been cauterised, or sealed, with boiling oil and hot irons. Paré found the use of cauterisation distressing and happened upon a much better and less traumatic way of treating soldiers under his care. He ran out of hot oil on one occasion in the battlefield, and instead applied a mixture of egg whites, rose oil...
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