dicine from a scientific standpoint and artists like Leonardo Da Vinci actually dissected human corpses to see what they looked like inside the body. This cleared up much of the previous misconceptions about the internal organs.The treatments in the Renaissance improved at a steady rate throughout the period. Because, during the Renaissance doctors would work on site at the battlefield and would learn from their experiences. In fact, a very famous Renaissance doctor named Ambroise Pare discovered a better treatment for a gunshot wound. Previously they had been treated with boiling elder oil turning pain to agony. But when he ran out of elder oil he made a slave of egg yolk, attar roses and turpentine. The next morning he discovered the ones treated with the elder oil were still in great pain and the ones treated with his new mixtures were greatly comforted.Many of the doctors made “cures” for diseases out of almost anything. One example is they thought that swallowing gold cured almost everything! Some of these treatments worked, others did not. But doctors kept experimenting.So overall there was progress made and the Renaissance made some important discoveries regarding medicine that helped launch us in to the next period of history. ...
