Aberdonians Flashcards

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Marcus terentius VARRO

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116-27 BC

Suggestion of microorganisms & link to disease

Advisedadvoidance of marshland

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Romans

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Dirt=disease

Aqueducts = clean water

Link between sewage & disease

Public toilets

Properties of muscular tissue & function of principal muscles

Importance of nervesfor motion & sensation

Brain nerves & spinal cord

Distinction arteries & veins

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Printing press

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Renaissance

1450 - Gutenberg

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Da Vinci

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Dissections ofhumanbodies & careful anatomical drawings

Church forbade

Dissections on sinners only -criminals
Vitrovian man

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De moto cardis

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Published 1628
Movement of blood around body

William Harvey

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JJR Macleod

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1920s

Insulin
With Banting & collip

1923

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Hans kosterlitz

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Co-discovered morphine like chemicals produced in brain

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John Boyd Orr

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1899-1914: Glasgow degrees in teaching, biology & medicine

1914 - 1918: started a research institute =rowett

1927: value of milk in children

1936: food, health & income

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John mallard

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1980Fraserburgh man first MRI

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