Important figures in Medicine History 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryMedicine through time (OCR History A)GCSEOCR Created by: janesegerCreated on: 10-04-14 16:42 Imhotep worshipped as founder of Egyptian medicine 1 of 23 Tawaret protected women during pregnancy and childbirth 2 of 23 Sekhmet caused epidemics, plagues, famines, etc. 3 of 23 Asclepius really good doctor, became God of healing 4 of 23 Hippocrates Four humours, clinical observation, hippocratic oath, hippocratic corpus 5 of 23 Galen taught doctors, theory of opposites, books used for hundreds of years, continued Hippocrates' work 6 of 23 Andrea Vesalius anatomy, "Fabric of the Human Body", dissection, proved Galen wasn't always right 7 of 23 Ambroise Pare wounds (cauterisation --> ointment, etc.), "Works on Surgery", ligatures 8 of 23 William Harvey heart and blood, "Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals", heart=pump, 9 of 23 James Simpson cholorform - anaesthetic 10 of 23 Joseph Lister carbolic spray - antiseptics 11 of 23 Edward Jenner vaccinations (smallpox and cowpox), as opposed to inoculations already being done 12 of 23 Louis Pasteur germ theory, pasteurisation 13 of 23 Robert Koch staining bacteria, developing a medium to grow them on 14 of 23 Alexander Fleming discovered mould (penicillin) killed bacteria 15 of 23 Howard Florey led research team - funding, experiments 16 of 23 Ernst Chain realised how to mass produce penicillin 17 of 23 Norman Heatley built machine that produced more penicillin, advertised in America 18 of 23 Florence Nightingale revolutionised nursing, improved hospitals, trained nurses, Crimean War, "Notes on Nursing", "Notes on Hospitals" 19 of 23 Mary Seacole Crimean War, hands-on nurse, herbal remedies - tropical diseases 20 of 23 Edwin Chadwick showed the government they would have to spend money to clean up the cities to stop the spread of diseases 21 of 23 John Snow took the pump off the Borad Street water pump to prove cholera was water-borne 22 of 23 Aneurin Bevan set up the NHS despite opposition 23 of 23
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