Dissection

From a family of doctors and pharmacists.[4]  Learned how to do animal dissections at the medical school of the University of Paris. Later dissected human bodies and examined human bones from the Paris cemeteries.[5]  In 1536, Vesalius returned to the duchy of Brabant to attend the Catholic University of Leuven. Then he went to the University of Padua where anatomical dissection was very developed.[6]  As he did dissections as the professor of surgery in the University of Padua, Vesalius…

for anatomical dissection. For example, “the structure that once housed the Medical College of Georgia…its concrete floor lay a chaos of desiccated body parts and nearly ten thousand human bones and skulls…” that were identified as stolen (120). As a result, these stolen bodies indicate how the subject of anatomy was once figured out through abusing mainly African Americans and dissecting their bodies. In comparison, African American prisoners were also used for anatomical dissection after being…

During the Roman empire, medicine in Rome revolved around Galen, a physician who reconciled the opposing philosophical constructs of Plato (an idealist) and Aristotle (a realist) through dissections and the formation of a systematic description of human anatomy. Although the belief in an irrational nature, a Platonic doctrine which stated that intangible forces outside of the natural world could have an effect on earthly beings had been popular in Greece, Galen and his followers revealed unease…

ahead of their time. He was thought to excise the eyeball of an animal and observed the insides of the eye such as the channels and the optic nerves which lead back to the brain. He was also the first to observe arteries and veins in his animal dissections were different which contradicted other scientists’ theories in his time. Another important scientist that contributed more information centuries after Alcmaeon was Andreas Vesalius who was later known as the father of modern anatomy. He was…

Animal experimentation has participated a vital role in biomedical research throughout history, however for centuries it has also been an issue of heated public and philosophical discussion. While there are countless historical overviews of animal experimentation in specific areas and time spans, and a minority on the ethical controversy, there is presently no inclusive review article on the animal research, the communal controversy surrounding it, and the appeal of various historical moral…

Field block anesthesia: (meds, # mls, process, effect) 1-2% of lidocaine or 0.25 or 0.5% Bupivacaine 10ml of either medications is used. Lidocaine needs at least 10 mins to be effective. Used a 10 ml syringe with 27 gauze with ¼ in length needle. Lidocaine with epinephrine can use to decrease bleeding and extent the Lidocaine effect. However, epinephrine is contraindicated with single circulation or end such as fingers, toes, ears, and nose. After cleansing the skin with an antiseptic a local…

Curious Lives of Human Cadavers On her exploration of the body after postmortem, Mary Roach begins the book by attending a medical seminar about the dissection of heads. At the seminar there are forty heads of people who have recently died, draped in white cloth, waiting on the arrival of surgeons. When the heads have been uncovered and the dissections have started, Roach describes the process of objectification. Objectification is taught during the first year of med school in “gross lab”…

Lab 3: Stimulus strength vs. muscle force production Introduction: The goal of this lab is to determine the relationship between stimulus amplitude (strength) and the contractile properties (i.e. force) of the frog gastrocnemius muscle. Skeletal muscle is composed of bundles of muscle fibers called myofibers. These fibers are themselves composed of myofibrils, which are comprised of the ordered arrangement of actin and myosin. These proteins slide past each other in the presence of calcium…

bodies from the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova for science. He conducted dissections and autopsies to learn and determine what the body really looked like. Another reason he conducted such strange experiments was to find out how muscles and bones worked, which was revolutionary for the time. His test subjects performed dissections on men, women, and even fetuses. He used all of the information he had learned from the dissections to draw more than 200 pages of anatomical sketches.…

Severe pain of sudden onset could be caused by a dissecting aneurysm in the aorta. Distal dissection presents as interscapular pain whilst proximal dissection causes anterior chest pain. Likewise, a spontaneous pneumothorax may result in sudden severe pain and dyspnoea. Patient’s may describe a sudden intense pain followed by less intense sharp pain that is localised to one side of the chest. Chest wall and pleuritic pain increases with inspiration and is localised to a small area. Pain is…