AQA Britain & Health - key people

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Hippocrates
Believes people became ill when 4 humours were out of balance
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Galen
dissected pigs & apes to develop ideas about the brain & nervous system
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Ibn Nafis
Suggested blood moves from heart to lungs to heart
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Ibn Sina
‘Galen of Islam’ : Taught physicians & included Greek/his methods
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Rhazes
Wrote over 200 books + discovered difference between smallpox & measles
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Vesalius
Wrote ‘Fabric of the human body’ & proved Galen wrong
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Pare
A battlefield surgeon that used a new mixture to heal gunshot wounds
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Harvey
Wrote ‘motion of blood’ with Diagrams & showed heart is a pump & blood is recirculated
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Fabricius
Proved there are valves in veins
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Columbo
Showed blood moved along the veins & arteries
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Paracelsus
Said illnesses were caused by chemicals & believes God sent cures for illnesses
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John Hunter
18th century surgeon who believed in observation + scientific observation
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Jenner
1796: Tested a vaccine for smallpox on James Phipps
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James Lind
Used lime juice to stop scurvy
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Herman Boerhaave
Said medical s students should spend time observing patients & taking notes
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Pasteur
Came up with germ theory & developed vaccines for Rabies & anthrax
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Koch
Discovered TB & Cholera germ
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Ehrlich
Found cure for syphilis (Salvarsan 606/Magic Bullet)
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Simpson
1847: Discovered Chloroform
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Lister
Used Carbolic Acid As antiseptic
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Humphrey Davy
Discovered Laughing gas
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Liston
High speed surgeon
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Horace Wells
First surgeon to use laughing gas as an anaesthetic
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Hannah greener
1848: Died Fromm Chloroform
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William Halsted
1890: Introduced rubber gloves
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Chadwick
1842 Public health report
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Farr
Introduced death records
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Hill
Made houses cleaner for working men
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Snow
Discovered cholera was spread through water
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Bazalgette
Built London sewers
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Fleming
1928: Discovered penicillin
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Booth
Suggested old-age Pensions
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Rowntree
Raised wages of workers to improve poverty
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Beveridge
Helped create NHS a special in 1942 he produced a report suggesting a NHS
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Bevan
Minister of health + set up NHS
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Florey + Chain
Mass produced penicillin
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Harold Gillies
Tremendous 5,000 British soldiers with plastic surgery
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Mcindoe
Fixed ex-soldiers faces
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Wesse
Created an injected anaesthetic
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Barnard
First successful heart transplant
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David Lloyd George
Raised taxes for old age pensions
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