Aberdonians Flashcards
Marcus terentius VARRO
116-27 BC
Suggestion of microorganisms & link to disease
Advisedadvoidance of marshland
Romans
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
Printing press
Renaissance
1450 - Gutenberg
Da Vinci
Dissections ofhumanbodies & careful anatomical drawings
Church forbade
Dissections on sinners only -criminals
Vitrovian man
De moto cardis
Published 1628
Movement of blood around body
William Harvey
JJR Macleod
1920s
Insulin
With Banting & collip
1923
Hans kosterlitz
Co-discovered morphine like chemicals produced in brain
John Boyd Orr
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
John mallard
1980Fraserburgh man first MRI