Medicine Through Time-Key individuals 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryMedicine through time (OCR History A)GCSEOCR Created by: jennyt3101Created on: 08-01-18 17:56 Andreas Vesalius Anatomy expert. Proved Galen wrong. Published book 1548. 1 of 10 William Harvey Proved the heart is a pump (Galen wrong again). Book 1628. 2 of 10 Edward Jenner Smallpox vaccination using cowpox. 1796 3 of 10 Edwin Chadwick Report on Living Conditions of the poor, 1842. 4 of 10 John Snow Linked cholera to dirty water (Broad St pump), 1854. 5 of 10 Louis Pasteur Germ Theory 1861, proved germs cause disease (not spontaneous generation) 6 of 10 Joseph Lister Used carbolic acid in surgery to prevent infection (antiseptics). 1865. 7 of 10 Robert Koch Proved germ theory by identifying the anthrax bacterium, 1875. 8 of 10 Alexander Fleming Discovered penicillin in 1929 and published a paper on it. 9 of 10 Aneurin Bevan Health Minister. Overcame opposition to launch NHS 1948. 10 of 10
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