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Anatomy and blood circulation
Dissection-based anatomy corrected Galen, and Harvey showed that blood circulates around the body.
Open in the interactive tree →Andreas Vesalius published De humani corporis fabrica in 1543, with detailed printed illustrations drawn from human dissections; it overturned many of Galen's claims. William Harvey demonstrated in 1628 that the heart pumps blood in a closed circuit. Medicine became an experimental science of the body, with the printing press spreading the pictures.
Prerequisites
- Ancient clinical medicine~400 BC
- Printing Press~1450
Unlocks
- Willis maps the brain1664
- Nerves run on electricity1791
- Vaccination1796
- Stethoscope1816
- Anesthesia1846
- Brain localization (Broca)1861
- Blood groups and transfusion1901
- Hormones1902-1905
- Insulin1921
- Heart-lung machine1953
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