History Key Individuals - Medicine Through Time

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Galen
Introduced the theory of opposites.
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Hippocrates
Introduced the four humours theory.
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Edward Jenner
Vaccinations.
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Louis Pasteur
Germ Theory 1861 and created vaccinations for Chicken Cholera, Anthrax & Rabies.
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Robert Koch
Developed Germ Theory and confirmed the link between germs and diseases.
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Andreas Vesalius
Wrote "The Fabric of the Human Body" and discovered that the jaw bone was one bone, not two.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montague
Brought over incoluation from Turkey.
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Thomas Sydenham
Linked symptoms to diseases and first diagnosed Scarlet Fever.
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The Hunter Brothers
Set up a medical school.
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William Harvey
Wrote "An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals" and specialised in the circulation of blood.
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Florence Nightingale
Set up district nurses, improved sanitation in hospitals & nursing techniques, and worked in the Crimean War.
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Joseph Bazalgette
Constructed a sewer network in London.
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James Phipps
A young boy who was given a small injection of Sarah Nelmes' Cowpox to prevent a serious case of Smallpox.
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Hannah Greener
Had a toenail surgically removed but died due to an overdose of Chloroform.
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James Simpson
Disovered the use of Chloroform for anaesthetics.
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Sarah Nelmes
A milkmaid who had Cowpox - her pus was used for a vaccination on a young boy called James Phipps.
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John Snow
Discovered causes for Cholera and invented the Chloroform inhaler.
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Ignaz Semmelweiss
Encouraged hand-washing in hospitals.
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Joseph Lister
Discovered the use of Carbolic Acid as an antiseptic.
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William Haltstead
Encouraged the use of rubber gloves and discovered aseptic surgery techniques.
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Alexander Fleming
Discovered Penicillin.
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Howard Florey & Ernst Chain
Mass produced the Penicillin antibiotic.
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Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered X-rays.
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Paul Ehrlich
Discovered the use of the Salvarsan 606 magic bullet for treating Syphilis.
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Gerhard Domagk
Discovered the use of the Prontosil magic bullet for treating blood poisoning.
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Helmuth Wesse
Developed an anaesthetic that could be injected.
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Christian Barnard
Performed the first human heart transplant.
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Charles Richard Drew
Worked on blood transfusions, improved techniques on storing blood and developed large-scale blood banks in the early stages of WWII.
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Introduced the four humours theory.

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Hippocrates

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Vaccinations.

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Germ Theory 1861 and created vaccinations for Chicken Cholera, Anthrax & Rabies.

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Developed Germ Theory and confirmed the link between germs and diseases.

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