History Revision

Important people 

• Hippocrates-the four humours
• Galen-built on Hippocrate's work
• Andreas Vesalius-breastbone has 3 parts not 7,jaw bone is one bone,invisible blood holes in to the heart do not exist
• William Harvey-proved the heart acts as a pump
• Ambroise Pare-replaced boiling oil for gunshot wounds with egg yolks, turpentine and rose oil. Used ligatures to stop bleeding (silk thread around blood vessels) and replace cauterising. Also designed false limbs.
• Edward Jenner- first vaccination (smallpox)
• Louis Pasteur- germ theory
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