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Who is Lloyd George?
Associated with the 'old-age pension'
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What did Florey and Chain do?
Mass produced penicillin
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What did hunter correctly discover?
The movement of bloodflow
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What did Joseph Bazalgette do?
Created Londons sewage network
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What did Joseph Lister promote?
The idea of sterile and antiseptic surgery
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What did Edwin Chadwick do?
Wrote a report about public health and how it needed improving
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Harold Gillies was the first surgeon to do what?
Plastic surgery
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John Snow idedntified what?
The source of a Cholera outbreak
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What was Galen wrong about?
The whole human body
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What did Hippocrates introduce?
The idea of the 4 humours
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When did Louis Pasteur first use Pasteurisation?
When a brewery complained about their beer turning bad
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What did Thomas Sydenham write?
Observationes medicae
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What did William Harvey prove?
Galen was wrong about bloodflow
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What did Robert Koch identify?
The bacteria that causes tuberculosis
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Al-Razi was alive in waht era?
Medieval
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Alexander Flemming did waht?
Re-discovered penicillin
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What is Vesalius famous for?
Being the first person to challenge Galen
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What are ligatures that Pare used?
Silk threads
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What did Seebohm Rowntree find after writing his report?
That poverty was a result of low wages
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Anurine Bevan did what?
Introduced the NHS to britain
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What did James simpson demonstrate?
Demonstrate the anasthetic properties of chloroform
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John Tyndall was around in what era?
Modern
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