Ambroise Paré and His Discoveries
Ambroise Pare is one of the most influential doctors from the Renaissance. He worked as a barber surgeon. He is known as “The Father of Modern Surgery” (www.britannica.com). The Renaissance was characterized as a time of discovery and rebirth. People were now open to new ideas. This motivated Ambroise Parè to develop new ideas in the medical field. In 1536, Ambroise Parè worked as a surgeon in the military, where he gained much experience in treating gunshot wounds. He was the surgeon to the king and soon became the head of the surgical department of Hôtel Dieu. As he gained more experience and observed and explored treatments, Parè developed new ways to cure wounds and other injuries. Ambroise Parè’s numerous discoveries gave Europeans a new way of thinking in the medical field such as discovering new medical instruments, how to…show more content… While working as a surgeon in the military, Ambroise Paré treated many gunshot wounds. He practiced the traditional way of cauterizing wounds. Cauterizing wounds was done to stop severe blood loss or to close of amputations. Wounds were traditionally cauterized with a boiling resinous solution of balsam (The Great Soviet Encyclopedia) or with elderberry oil (The method of curing wounds caused by arquebus and firearms). During the time that Parè worked as a surgeon in the military, while treating an arquebus wound, Parè ran out of the customary solution to cauterize the wound. He made a solution of egg yolk, oil of roses, and turpentine to treat the wound. The next day, Parè observed that those he treated with his new solution sustained less pain and swelling and those he treated with the traditional solution experienced more pain and many had a fever (The method of curing wounds caused by arquebus and firearms). Ambroise Parè’s new discovery in cauterizing wounds began the foundation for modern