History : Medicine

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Hippocrates
Explained disease through the 4 humours.
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Galen
Developed 4H. Produced Theory of Opposites.
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Vesalius
Proved Galen made mistakes in anatomy.
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William Harvey
Proved blood circulation, proving Galen was wrong.
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Edward Jenner
Smallpox Vaccination
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Edwin Chadwick
Publich Health Reform. Brain behind Public Health Act 1848
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John Snow
Linked cholera to polluted water supplies. (Broad Street Pump)
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Florence Nightingale
Nursed soldiers, nursing respectable.Founded training college
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Louis Pasteur
Germ Theory. How vaccinations work (developing Koch)
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Bazalgette
London's main sewer system&pumping stations (engineer)R
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Robert Koch
Identified bacteria responsible for individual disease.
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Wilhelm Rontgen
Discovered X-Rays.
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Paul Ehrlich
First magic bullet - Salversen 606.
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David Lloyd George
Liberal Welfare reforms including National Insurance Act 1911
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Marie Curie
Mobile X-Ray units. Radiotherapy.
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Alexander Fleming
Discovered first antibiotic - Penicillin
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Gerhardt Domagk
2nd magic bullet, Prontosil & Sulphonamides
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Howard Florey & Ernst Chain
Mass production of Penicillin in USA.
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Aneurin Bevan
Planned the NHS.
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Maurice Wilkins & Rosalind Franklin
X-Ray photographs of DNA.
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Francis Crick & James Watson
Discovered the structure of DNA
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Developed 4H. Produced Theory of Opposites.

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Galen

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Proved Galen made mistakes in anatomy.

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Card 4

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Proved blood circulation, proving Galen was wrong.

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Card 5

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Smallpox Vaccination

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