Important Figures Within The History Of Medicine

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Who founded the “Vaccination”?
Edward Jenner
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Who was the first woman to be a doctor?
Elizabeth Garret Anderson
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Who brought Hippocrates and Galen’s Ideas Together?
Avicenna
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Who Concluded That Blood Must Circulate Around The Body?
William Harvey
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Who got thrown in a mental institution for telling doctors to wash their hands?!
Ignaz Semmelweis
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Who Improved the London Sewer Network??
Joseph Bazal Gette
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Who thought diseases attacked from outside of the body?
Paracelsus
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Who ended the cholera outbreak, and suggested that it was spread by water?
John Snow
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Who insisted that doctors should visit the sick people, instead of the other way around?
Thomas Sydenham
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Who thought of different techniques to treat gunshot wounds instead of using boiling hot oil?
Ambroise Paré
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Who discovered that 30% of people were living in poverty?
Charles Booth
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Who created the Theory Of Four Humours?
Hippocrates
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Who suggested diseases could be treated using opposites?
Galen
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Who suggested that dissecting bodies was important, even though it was against religious views?
Andreas Vesalius
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Who invented the “Germ Theory”?
Louis Pasteur
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What did Hippocrates and Galen do?
Suggested The Theory Of Four Humours and Opposites
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What did Andreas Vesalius do?
Pointed out many mistakes made by Hippocrates and Galen
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What did William Harvey do?
Realised that Galen was wrong and Blood must circulate around the body
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What did Ambroise Paré do?
Treated Gunshot wounds and stopped hot oil being used
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What did Edward Jenner do?
Invented the Vaccination
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