Medicine Through Time - Key People
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- Created on: 24-05-17 19:12
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- History - Key People
- John Snow
- Discovered cholera traveled through water
- Broad St Pump, Soho - Told everyone water was poisoned
- Alexander Fleming
- Discovered penicillin when cleaning petri dishes
- Didn't do much with the discovery apart from write some research on it
- Florey and Chain
- Tested penicillin and got funding for it - saved many in WWI
- Were funded by America because Britain was unable to afford it
- If America didn't join the war it wouldn't have been mass produced
- Alexander Fleming
- Discovered penicillin when cleaning petri dishes
- Didn't do much with the discovery apart from write some research on it
- Hippocrates
- Created the Four Humours theory, which was believed for ages onward
- Black Bile, Yellow Bile, Blood and Phlegm
- Edward Jenner
- Discovered cowpox prevented people from catching small pox
- Created vaccinations
- Galen
- Helped put out the four humours theory, and gave suggestions for cures
- Hippocrates
- Created the Four Humours theory, which was believed for ages onward
- Black Bile, Yellow Bile, Blood and Phlegm
- Vesalius
- Proved Galen and Hippocrates wrong, and created a book about the anatomy of a human
- Dissected bodies to find out more about the human anatomy
- Simpson
- Discovered chloroform could be used as an anaesthetic.
- Dark age in surgery - more people die than before
- Lister
- Creates antiseptic technique, killing any microbes which are in the surgery rooms
- Eventually leads to the creation of aseptic techniques
- Pasteur + Koch
- Pasteur creates the Germ Theory, which says that diseases are caused by bacteria, not miasmas.
- Koch finds the specific microbe which causes Anthrax, proving the Germ Theory
- Florence Nightingale
- Makes hospital standards higher, improving them for the future
- Was a nurse in the Crimean War
- John Snow
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