460-377 BC - Founding father of modern medicine. Source of the Hippocratic Oath and Hippocratic Corpus which included works like 'Airs, Waters and Places', Coan Prognostic, Aphorisms, Regimine for Health and Regimine of Acute Disease
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Aristotle
384-322 BC - Developed the 4 Humours theory and linked disease to its imbalance
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Alexander the Great
Founded Alexandria in Egypt in 331 BC - It became the hub of scientific knowledge
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Erasistratus
Identified the difference between the blood vessels in 250 BC and discovered how nerves were not hollow
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Galen
Moved to Rome in 161 AD to become the Emperor's physician. Published over 100 books on anatomy, but could only dissect animals so made many mistakes
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Rhazes
910 AD - Distinguished Smallpox and Measles as two separate diseases
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Avicenna
980-1037 AD - Wrote 'Canon of Medicine' which combined Hippocrates, Aristotle's and Galen's work
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Avenzoar
1100s - Described the parasite that caused Scabies
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The Black Death
Hit England in 1348 and killed 50% of the population
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Johan Gutenburg
1454 - Introduced the printing press to Europe
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Abroise Pare
Army surgeon born in 1510, replaced cauterization with silk ligatures and burning oil with soothing ointment when treating open wounds
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Charles II
Founded the Royal Society, Britain's most prestigious scientific body, in 1660
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Galileo
Persecuted for heresy in 1663 by the Inquisition for ideas that went against God
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The Great Plague
1665 - 100 000 dead
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The Great Fire of London
1666 - Sterilized a lot of the city
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Lady Montagu
Introduced Inoculation to England from Turkey in 1721
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Edward Jenner
Invented first Vaccine in 1796 - Injected a weaker form of smallpox (cowpox) which provided immunity to the fatal disease. Vaccination made free in 1840 and compulsory in 1853
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Elizabeth Blackwell
American became first female doctor in 1849
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Florence Nightingale
Nursed soldiers during the Crimean war (1854) and opened Nightingale's School of Nursing in St. Thomas Hospital is 1860
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Mary Seacole
A Jamaican Woman who nursed Crimean war soldiers on the front line. She could not become a nurse under Florence Nightingale because she was black
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Louis Pasteur
Discovers Germ Theory (1861), Pasteurization (1864), Vaccine for Chicken Cholera (1879), Vaccine for Anthrax (1881) and Vaccine for Rabbis (1885)
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Robert Koch
used dyeing techniques, cultures and microscopes to identify and link microbes to their diseases. Identified Anthrax Spores (1875), TB microbe (1882) and Cholera microbe (1883)
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
First British female doctor, and encouraged the government to pass an act allowing women to become doctors in 1876
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Emil von Behring
Discovers an antitoxin for diphtheria in 1891 by extractng it from animals recovering from the disease
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Paul Ehrlich
Searches for synthetic 'magic bullets' (antitoxins) and discovers a dye that kills the malaria germ in 1899, and Salvarsan 606 that cures Syphilis
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Alexander Fleming
Discovers, by chance, a mould that produces Penicillin, which kills bacteria in 1928
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Florey and Chain
Between 1938-40, they devise a process of purifying penicillin. When America joins the war it funds the mass production of Penicillin
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World Health Organisation
Founded in 1948 - responsible for vaccinations worldwide and the eradication of Smallpox
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Crick and Watson
Discover the structure of DNA in 1953, relying on the work of Franklin and Wilkins
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384-322 BC - Developed the 4 Humours theory and linked disease to its imbalance
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Aristotle
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Founded Alexandria in Egypt in 331 BC - It became the hub of scientific knowledge
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Identified the difference between the blood vessels in 250 BC and discovered how nerves were not hollow
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Moved to Rome in 161 AD to become the Emperor's physician. Published over 100 books on anatomy, but could only dissect animals so made many mistakes
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