Key People - Surgery and Anatomy

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Made the theory of opposites
Claudius Galen
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Used ligatures
Ambroise Pare
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Proved Galen wasn't always right
Andreas Vesalius
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Proved that the heart was a pump
William Harvey
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Discovered laughing gas was an anaesthetic
Humphrey Davy
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Discovered ether was an anaesthetic
John Warren
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Discovered chloroform was an anaesthetic
James Simpson
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Made doctors wash their hands
Ignaz Semmelweis
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Used carbolic acid as an antiseptic
Joseph Lister
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Made the x-ray machine
William Rontgen
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Pioneered plastic surgery
Harold Gillies
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Did the first heart transplant
Christiaan Barnard
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Used ligatures

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Ambroise Pare

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Proved Galen wasn't always right

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Proved that the heart was a pump

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Discovered laughing gas was an anaesthetic

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