17-20th Century Flashcards
Who was John hunter and what did he do
Gave himself gonorrhoea and syphilis when trying to distinguish the difference between the two
Learned amputations weren’t necessary for blood aneurysms saved a mans leg
Had a collection of animals , skeletons and embryos that lead to his poverty near to his death
1771 wrote a book on teeth
1786 wrote a book on gunshot wounds
Trained hundreds of surgeons
Thomas guy
Guys hospital in 1724
Originally funded at Thomas’ hospital
Maternity hospitals
Germ theory
1699 Redi carries out experiments which concluded that germs are in the air
Louis Pasteurs germ theory - 1857 showed a specific microbe was causing wine to go off , temperature killed them , proved microbes didn’t appear on their own and that bacteria could be found everywhere
Concluded bacteria causes decay and year later linked it to disease
Edward Jenner
1796 inserted cowpox into a 8 year old boy six weeks later gave him smallpox and he was immune
Published vaccination findings in 1798
Louis Pasteur
1880s discovered how vaccination works and developed vaccines first for chicken cholera and anthrax and then rabies .
Robert Koch
1870s
Made first discovery of the bacterium that caused a human disease tuberculosis .
Stained bacteria with dye and grew bacteria on potatoes
1883 discovered bacterium that caused cholera
Paul Ehlrich
1909 Salvarsan 606 aka magic bullet killed bacteria that caused syphilis
Alexander Fleming
1928 developed the first anti biotic penicillin.
Penicillin kills bacteria
He went on holiday and la penicillin spore got to his lab and killed the germ he was testing .
Gave up on it after a while
Florey and chain
1938 - Developed penicillin as Fleming didn’t want to
Tested it on animals then human but he died because he didn’t get enough dosage .
Got 25 pounds from government
1941 - went to America and American government invested millions , to use it on their soldiers
250,000 troops treated with penicillin 1945
2,300,000 doses for ww2
