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The english hippocrates.

Set up as a physican, appointed to James I and Charles I

an army surgeon during the seven years war, he is known as the father of scientific surgery

discovered that milkmaids that had caught cowpox previously never seemed to catch smallpox. injected a young boy to test his theory.

He discovered the germ theory and built on Jenners idea for vaccination. invented the idea of pastuerisation, known as the father of microbiology