People in medicine

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Edward Jenner
Created vaccination for Small pox throught the use of cow pox.
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Hippocrates
He based his medical practice on observations and on the study of the human body. He held the belief that illness had a physical and a rational explanation
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William Harvey
first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body and to provide experiments and arguments to support this idea.
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Thomas Sydenham
He was the author of Observationes Medicae which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'.
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John Snow
an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He also discovered that the water pumps in Soho were poisoned.
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Galen
His most important discovery was that arteries carry blood although he did not discover circulation
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He based his medical practice on observations and on the study of the human body. He held the belief that illness had a physical and a rational explanation

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Hippocrates

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first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body and to provide experiments and arguments to support this idea.

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He was the author of Observationes Medicae which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'.

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an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He also discovered that the water pumps in Soho were poisoned.

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