Thomas Sydenham and Florence Nightingale
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- Thomas Sydenham and Florence Nightingale
- Florence Nightingale
- 1820-1910
- She became a nurse in the British army during the Crimean war. Through basic principals of cleanliness, she cut the death rate of soldiers hugely.
- She wrote a report on hospital conditions for the government and set up the first training school for nurses
- She believed in spontaneous generation which was an incorrect theory
- Thomas Sydenham
- 1624-1689
- English doctor famous for recognising the symptoms of epidemic diseases such as scarlet fever, and for classifying illnesses and medicines correctly.
- He was critical of quack medicine and stressed for careful observation of symptoms
- Florence Nightingale
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