Individuals In The History Of Medicine Flashcards
Hippocrates
Greek, development of the theory of The four humours, invented the theory of opposites, clinical observations, recording and Found magic wasn’t working.
Galen
Roman, proved the brain controlled the body and said that blood passes through the septum.
Rhazes
Islamic period, identified the differences between smallpox and measles, great observer.
Abulcasis
Islamic period, wrote al- basrif a medical encyclopaedia and perfected delicate operations such as the removal of a dead foetus.
Ibn an nafis
Islamic period, first described the pulmonary circulation of blood and found that the blood and found that the blood passed from one side of the heart to the other through the lungs not the septum.
Pare
Middle ages, egg, oil of roses and turpentine instead of cauterisation. And ligatures (tied off blood vessels). Military surgeon
Versalius
1543, wrote the fabric of the human body, detailed drawings of the human body by stealing criminal corpses. Said that blood did not pass through the septum.
Columbo
1559, blood moves from one side of the heart to the other through the lungs.
Fabricius
Discovered that valves in the veins allowed blood to only travel one way.
Harvey
Realised that dissecting animals to find out about humans was a bad idea except with frogs to find out about the heart. Proved that blood circulates the body and described how.
Jenner
First vaccination- cow pox, small pox
Davy
Found that pain could be relieved by nitrous oxide- laughing gas.
William Farr
Thought that cholera was airborne.
Chadwick
Disease is from bad air and clean habits need clean water, must improve sewers.
Semmelweiss
Must wash hands between surgery with chloride.
Simpson
When sniffing chemicals he found chloroform.
Dr Snow
Found the relationship between water pumps and cholera.
Nightingale
Lady of the lamp, nice nurse and clinical observations.
Pasteur
Germ theory , germs are the main problem, kill germs. Pasteurisation
Lister
Carbolic spray, kills germs outside of the body but to toxic for inside, microscopes and the power of microorganisms.
Koch
Race to beat France, developed germ theory and found that specific microorganisms caused specific diseases.
Octavia Hill
Founder of the national trust.
Behing
TB and diphtheria vaccine.
Rowntree and Booth
Both separately found that poverty was not due to laziness and drunkenness.
Landsteiner
Developed the blood group system
Ehrlich
Magic bullets
Fleming
Found penicillin
Florey and Chain
Developed penicillin in Oxford and took it to the UK for mass production.
Anuerin Bevan
Founded the NHS in 1948
Beveridge
Worked towards founding Britain s welfare state.
Watson and Crick
DNA
Barnard
First heart Surgery