Roman - balanaced four humours, followed Hippocrates, brain controls body, dissected pigs, two jawbones, 60 books
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William Harvey
Renaissance - showed blood flows around the body, heart is a pump, blood not burnt up, dissected humans and animals, proved his points
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Versalius
Renaissance - said Galen was wrong, found about jaw bone, stole corpses, often criticised
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Edward Jenner
found vaccination to smallpox, given grant from government to set up vaccination grants, mocked because he was from Gloucestershire,
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Florence Nightingale
1853 went to Crimean war with 38 nurses, encouraged hygiene, set up training school for nurses, by 1901 60000 nurses because of her, 1860 'notes on nursing', reduced death rate by 40%
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Gunther Von Hagens
2002 live dissections on TV
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Leroy Stevens
1953 discovered stem cells
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Henry Dale
1910 discovered histamine for allergies
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Geoffrey Hounsfield
1972 discovered CAT scanner
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Fredrick Banting and Charles Best
1921 discovered insulin and found cause of diabetes
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Patrick Steptoe
1970's developed IVF fertility treatment
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Robert Koch
Renaissance - found germ that caused anthrax, causes of typhoid, tuberculosis and cholera discovered
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Louis Pasteur
Renaissance - researched chicken cholera, accidentally left petri dish on side, found air had weakened germ, made germ theory in 1861
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James Simpson
19th Century - discovered chloroform for pain
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Joseph Lister
19th Century - Developed antiseptics
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John Snow
19th Century - link between clean water and cholera
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Edwin Chadwick
19th Century - reported to government on public health, ill health caused by bad conditions, £11 million spent on improving conditions, 1857 Public Health Act (provide clean water and proper drainage and sewers)
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Alexander Fleming
20th Century - Discovered penicillin
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Florey and Chain
20th Century - 1930's they developed use of penicillin further
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Card 2
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Roman - balanaced four humours, followed Hippocrates, brain controls body, dissected pigs, two jawbones, 60 books
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Galen
Card 3
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Renaissance - showed blood flows around the body, heart is a pump, blood not burnt up, dissected humans and animals, proved his points
Back
Card 4
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Renaissance - said Galen was wrong, found about jaw bone, stole corpses, often criticised
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Card 5
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found vaccination to smallpox, given grant from government to set up vaccination grants, mocked because he was from Gloucestershire,
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