1875. -Discovered x-rays when experimenting with cathode rays. - Could see through anything except bone and metal. - IMMEDIATE IMPACT Hospitals had installed x-ray machines within 6 months of the discovery. - Used to treat soldiers in the war
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Louis Pasteur
1800's. -Proved the existence of microbes. -Proved his theory by doing public experiments. -Proved heating microbes killed them and stopped infection (pasteurisation)
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James Simpson
1847. -Experimented with gaseous chemicals and found chloroform was an anesthetic. -People opposed the use of chloroform as they feared the side affects until Queen Victoria used it during childbirth
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Joseph Lister
1865. -Antiseptic. -Followed Pasteurs work and found the use of carbolic acid made death rates in hospitals drop dramatically. - Sprayed carbolic acid around the operation and to sterilise equipment
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Christian Barnard
1967. -First heart transplant. -First patient died after 18 days from infection. -Led to more complicated heart surgery.
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Alexander Fleming
-Discovered penicillin by accident. -Came back from holiday and found mould on the dirty dishes, except for where there was 'mould juice' which he named penicillin
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Florey and chain
-Developed penicllin. -Flew to the USA to spread the word. -Did and experiment with 8 mice, 4 had penicillin and 4 didnt, the 4 with penicillin survived. -saved many people in the war
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Edward Jenner
-Set up a business in Gloucestershire but people refused inoculation because they believed if you got cowpox you were immune to smallpox. -Tested the theory on James Phipps which proved the theory right. -Didnt know how it worked just knew it did
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William Harvey
-Proved Galen wrong. -Proved blood went around the body in one direction instead of renewing itself
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Ambroise Pare
-When treating wounded soldiers he ran out of burning oil so made an ointment out of turpentine egg yolk and oil of roses. -realised the people treated with ointment were in better condition. -Used ligatures to tie off blood vessels. -
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Vesalius
- Proved there was only one bone in the jaw. -Dissected humans instead of animals
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Robert Koch
-identified the microbe that caused Anthrax.-In competition with Pasteur. -Linked microbes with disease
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Card 2
Front
1800's. -Proved the existence of microbes. -Proved his theory by doing public experiments. -Proved heating microbes killed them and stopped infection (pasteurisation)
Back
Louis Pasteur
Card 3
Front
1847. -Experimented with gaseous chemicals and found chloroform was an anesthetic. -People opposed the use of chloroform as they feared the side affects until Queen Victoria used it during childbirth
Back
Card 4
Front
1865. -Antiseptic. -Followed Pasteurs work and found the use of carbolic acid made death rates in hospitals drop dramatically. - Sprayed carbolic acid around the operation and to sterilise equipment
Back
Card 5
Front
1967. -First heart transplant. -First patient died after 18 days from infection. -Led to more complicated heart surgery.
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