Government

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Roman

-organised government

-introduced taxes

-taxes supported the public healthcare system

-efficiency allowed them to develop medicine further

-settled and centralised in Rome

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Jenner

-1802

-British government give Edward Jenner a £30,000 grant to open a vaccination clinic in London

-In 1852, vaccination was made compulsory

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Koch

-his maticulous research impressed the German government and they gave him a full time research team  of bacteriologist and a job

-enabled effectiveness

-Pasteur also had a research team

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Florence Nightingale

-Summoned by a British member of parliment called Sydney Herbert, he was the secretary state of war in 1854 when war was declared with Russia

-After the war had ended, she gave them an 800 page report describing all the changes that needed to happen

-an army medical school was set up

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