Individuals Flashcards
What did Ambroise Pare do?
In the Army, he came up with a better way to replace cauterisation, helping develop the field of wound care
What did Andreas Vesalius do?
Wrote ‘Fabric of the human body’ and disproved Galen’s jaw theory, among many others
What did Thomas Sydenham do?
Relied on looks, not books, and wrote ‘Observations Medicae’
What did Edward Jenner do?
Created the first vaccine for smallpox
What did Louis Pasteur do?
Discovered Germ Theory and invented Pasteurisation
What did Florence Nightingale do?
Improved hospital conditions
What did William Harvey do?
Discovered how blood flowed through the body
What did John Snow do?
Identified link between poor sanitation and cholera cases
What did Robert Koch do?
Discovered TB bacteria, pretended to have cure, exposed by Arthur Conan Doyle
What did Joseph Lister do?
Introduced carbolic acid to be used in surgery to prevent infections
What did Alexander Fleming do?
Accidentally discovered Penicillin
What did James Simpson do?
Discovered chloroform and used it as an anaesthetic
What did Galen do?
Came up with the theory of four humours (Black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm)
What did Hippocrates do?
Came up with the theory of opposites (hot, cold, dry, wet)
What did Edwin Chadwick do?
Identified poor sanitation in poor neighbourhoods, removed damp decaying substances, and advised the government on how to solve the problems
