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Card 6

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Stressed the importance of observing and recording symptoms, "English Hippocrates".

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Card 7

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Nursing work during Crimean War (1854-6).

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Card 8

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Broad Street Pump experiment (1854).

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Card 9

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Developed the first vaccination for smallpox in the 1790's.

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Card 10

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Discovery of chloroform as an anaesthetic, 1847.

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Card 11

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Development of antiseptic surgery, beginning with carbolic acid in 1865.

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Card 12

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Encouraged more government action on public health.

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Card 13

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Identified the individual bacteria which cause diseases.

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Card 14

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Germ Theory, 1861.

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Card 15

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Developed the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606, in 1909.

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