Important People - More Depth

Question 1

Andreas versalius

Answer 1

• Professor of surgery.
• proved many of Galen’s ideas were wrong.
• Drew the muscles, nerves, organs and skeleton of the Human body from dissections.
• 1543 ‘The fabric of the human body’ which meant that others could learn about human anatomy.

Question 2

William Harvey

Answer 2

• London doctor.
Discovered Galen’s ideas about the blood were wrong.
•Discovered the veins only carry blood.
Discovered the heart works like a pump.

Question 3

Edward Jenner

Answer 3

• came up with a vaccination, using cowpox to prevent smallpox.
• by 1804, 12000 people were vaccinated.

Question 4

Elizabeth Garret Anderson

Answer 4

She set up a medical practise in London and gained a medical degree at a university in Paris.

Question 5

Florence Nightingale

Answer 5

• She lead a team of nurses at a military hospital during the Crimean war (1854-56).
• The believed that miasma caused disease.
She lowered the death rate at Scutari hospital from 42% - 2%.

Question 6

Hippocrates

Answer 6

• Ancient Greek doctor.

* he dismissed the idea that gods causes diseases but in fact it was a physical reason.

Question 7

Galen

Answer 7

• Galen was a Greek Doctor Who worked in the Rome in the second century A.D. he wrote many books detailing his ideas which were studied for the next 1000 years.