History individuals Medicine

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Octavia Hill
Helped to renovate poorer homes to improve public health
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Edward Jenner
Created a vaccination to cowpox and smallpox on accident
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Roger Bacon
Was imprisoned for continuously proving Galen wrong
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Marie Curie
Created portable X-rays, (Petite Curies) and discovered Radiotherapy
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John Ardenne
Anus surgeon who had a 50% patient survival rate
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Joseph Bazelgette
Engineer who created London's sewage system which is still used today
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Louis Pasteur
Created germ theory using flasks, accidentally creates a vaccine to chicken cholera
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Robert Koch
Discovered bacteria staining, doesn't find vaccinations
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Joseph Lister
Found Carbolic Acid, kills germs- aseptic surgery
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James Simpson
Discovered Chloroform, very interested in childbirth
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John Snow
Used a dot map to triangulate a cholera outbreak to the Broad Street pump
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Edwin Chadwick
Created the First Public Health act, however it was not compulsory
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Florence Nightingale
Helped to clean hospitals during the Crimean War, brought her ideas back to Britain
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Avicenna
Islamic doctor who wrote a book- The Canon of Medicine
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Theodoric of Lucca
Doctor who challenged Galen's ideas about leaving pus on a wound as it shows that it is healing
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Vesalius
Created 'The Fabric of the Human Body', which had detailed sketches of muscles
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Pare
Barber surgeon who created a ligature and salve on the battlefield
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William Harvey
Discovered the circulatory system , proved that blood wasn't made in the liver-Galen's ideas
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John Hunter
Tutor of William Harvey, A doctor who dissected bodies
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Ehrlich
Created a magic bullet, which is injected into the body and kills the disease-syphillis
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Florey + Chain
Popularised Fleming's research, got funding from US government, as it was during the attack on Pearl Harbour
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Fleming
Discover the Penicillium mould and discovered its ability to kill bacteria
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Rowntree + Booth
Discovered that more people live in poverty than the government say, try to help the poor
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Nye Bevan
Health minister who pushed for the founding of the NHS
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Created a vaccination to cowpox and smallpox on accident

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Was imprisoned for continuously proving Galen wrong

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Created portable X-rays, (Petite Curies) and discovered Radiotherapy

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Anus surgeon who had a 50% patient survival rate

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