Medicine Through Time - Individuals

Read the clues which will give you an indication of who the individual is, when you figure it out, fill in the cross word! 
As an extension you could test yourself by classifying each of the individuals into the following time periods:

  • Prehistory 
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient Greece
  • Ancient Rome
  • Middle Ages
  • Renaissance 
  • 19th Century 
  • 20th Century

 

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  • Created by: Chelskii
  • Created on: 22-04-13 17:08
Discovered that everyone who got their water from the Broad Street pump in London died of Cholera. He shut down the Broad Street pump and people in the stopped dying of cholera in that area.
John Snow
1 of 18
Founder of the Hippocratic Oath and thought up the original four humours theory.
Hippocrates
2 of 18
Revolutionised antiseptic surgery with the first use of Carbolic Acid and Carbolic Acid spray.
Joseph Lister
3 of 18
Did dissections on dead bodies stolen from a grave yard. Made art depicting the 'truth' about the human body, disproving many of Galen's theories.
Vesalius
4 of 18
Made further improvements on Hippocrates' four humours theory. Did dissections on animals to make discoveries about the circulatory and nervous system.
Galen
5 of 18
Disproved the idea of 'spontaneous generation' with Germ Theory in 1861
Louis Pasteur
6 of 18
Made improvements to the general cleanliness of hospitals in the Crimean War. Also known as 'The Lady with the Lamp'
Florence Nightingale
7 of 18
Published the report: 'The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population' in 1842 making great improvements to Public Health
Edwin Chadwick
8 of 18
Founded the use of 'ligatures' to seal wounds after amputation at war, and pioneered a herbal solution to heal the wound as opposed to hot tar.
Pare
9 of 18
Islamic doctor from the Middle Ages
Avicenna
10 of 18
Discovered the anaesthetic properties of Chloroform
James Simpson
11 of 18
Discovered that certain germs cause certain diseases. For example, Bacillus Anthracis causes the disease Anthrax
Robert Koch
12 of 18
Pioneered the 'National Health Service' (NHS) following the Beveridge report of 1942.
Aneurin Bevan
13 of 18
Made huge advances on the circulatory system and disproved many of Galen's original theories.
William Harvey
14 of 18
Pioneered the Small Pox vaccination after he discovered that if you are given a small non lethal dose of a disease you become immune to the disease.
Edward Jenner
15 of 18
Discovered by chance that bacteria would not grow around Penicillin
Alexander Fleming
16 of 18
Worked out how to isolate and concentrate Penicillin
Ernst Chain
17 of 18
Investigated the large scale production of Penicillin allowing enough to be made to treat every wounded soldier on D-Day in World War Two
Howard Florey
18 of 18

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Founder of the Hippocratic Oath and thought up the original four humours theory.

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Hippocrates

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Revolutionised antiseptic surgery with the first use of Carbolic Acid and Carbolic Acid spray.

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Card 4

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Did dissections on dead bodies stolen from a grave yard. Made art depicting the 'truth' about the human body, disproving many of Galen's theories.

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Card 5

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Made further improvements on Hippocrates' four humours theory. Did dissections on animals to make discoveries about the circulatory and nervous system.

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