Medicine Through Time

Key People

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Galen
Developed The Four Humours into The Theory of Opposites
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Hippocrates
Created the Four Humours Theory & Hippocratic Oath
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Edward Jenner
Introduced smallpox vaccinations through cowpox
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Louis Pasteur
Introduced The Germ Theory (1861) , created vaccinations for chicken cholera, rabies.
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Robert Koch
Developed Germ Theory and confirmed link between germs and disease.
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Andreas Vesalius
Wrote 'The Fabric of The Human Body' and dispelled a lot of Galens theories through dissection.
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Lady Montague
Introduced inoculation to England from Turkey.
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Thomas Sydenham
Linked symptoms to disease
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William Harvey
Developed knowledge on blood circulation and discovered the circulatory system through animal dissection.
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Florence Nightingale
Worked in the Crimean War to improve hospital sanitation and nursing techniques. Set up dstricts of nurses.
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Joseph Bazellgette
Set up London sewage system.
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James Simpson
Discovered the use of chlorofom as an anaesthetic.
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John Snow
Discovered causes of cholera
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Joseph Lister
Introduced carbolic acid as an antiseptic
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Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin
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Florey and Chain
Mass produced penicillin
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Created the Four Humours Theory & Hippocratic Oath

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Introduced smallpox vaccinations through cowpox

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Introduced The Germ Theory (1861) , created vaccinations for chicken cholera, rabies.

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Developed Germ Theory and confirmed link between germs and disease.

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