Medicine and Surgery - important people

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Imhotep
Ancient Egypt - Doctor then God of healing
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Asclepious
Ancient Greece - Greek God of healing
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Hippocrates
Ancient Greece - 1) 4 Humours 2) clinical observation 3) Books 4) Hippocratic Oath
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Galen
Ancient Rome - 1) Theory of Opposites 2) Anatomy
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Versalius
Renaissance - Anatomy, wrote a book called 'The Fabric of the Human Body'
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Pare
Renaissance - Found a new way to treat a gun shot wounds when he ran out of oil
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William Harvey
Renaissance - Discovered that the heart works like a pump
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Edward Jenner
18th Century - Vaccination (cowpox -> smallpox)
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Lister
19th Century - Antiseptic
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Pasteur
19th Century - 1) Germ theory 2) Chicken choral vaccination
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koch
19th Century - 1) TB Vaccination 2) Stain Bacteria
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Nightingale
19th Century - Improved hygiene in hospitals
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Ehrlich
20th Century - Discovered the first 'magic bullet' (a drug called Salvarsan 606)
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Domagk
20th Century - Discovered the second 'magic bullet' (a drug called prontosil)
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Alexander Fleming
20th Century - Discovered Penecillin
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Florey & Chain
Developed Penicillin
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Crick & Watson
DNA
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Simpson
18th Century - Discovered that chloroform could be used as an anaesthetic
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Ancient Greece - Greek God of healing

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Ancient Rome - 1) Theory of Opposites 2) Anatomy

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Renaissance - Anatomy, wrote a book called 'The Fabric of the Human Body'

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