Individuals In The History Of Medicine

Question 1

Hippocrates

Answer 1

Greek, development of the theory of The four humours, invented the theory of opposites, clinical observations, recording and Found magic wasn’t working.

Question 2

Galen

Answer 2

Roman, proved the brain controlled the body and said that blood passes through the septum.

Question 3

Rhazes

Answer 3

Islamic period, identified the differences between smallpox and measles, great observer.

Question 4

Abulcasis

Answer 4

Islamic period, wrote al- basrif a medical encyclopaedia and perfected delicate operations such as the removal of a dead foetus.

Question 5

Ibn an nafis

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Pare

Answer 6

Middle ages, egg, oil of roses and turpentine instead of cauterisation. And ligatures (tied off blood vessels). Military surgeon

Question 7

Versalius

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

Columbo

Answer 8

1559, blood moves from one side of the heart to the other through the lungs.

Question 9

Fabricius

Answer 9

Discovered that valves in the veins allowed blood to only travel one way.

Question 10

Harvey

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Jenner

Answer 11

First vaccination- cow pox, small pox

Question 12

Davy

Answer 12

Found that pain could be relieved by nitrous oxide- laughing gas.

Question 13

William Farr

Answer 13

Thought that cholera was airborne.

Question 14

Chadwick

Answer 14

Disease is from bad air and clean habits need clean water, must improve sewers.

Question 15

Semmelweiss

Answer 15

Must wash hands between surgery with chloride.

Question 16

Simpson

Answer 16

When sniffing chemicals he found chloroform.

Question 17

Dr Snow

Answer 17

Found the relationship between water pumps and cholera.

Question 18

Nightingale

Answer 18

Lady of the lamp, nice nurse and clinical observations.

Question 19

Pasteur

Answer 19

Germ theory , germs are the main problem, kill germs. Pasteurisation

Question 20

Lister

Answer 20

Carbolic spray, kills germs outside of the body but to toxic for inside, microscopes and the power of microorganisms.

Question 21

Koch

Answer 21

Race to beat France, developed germ theory and found that specific microorganisms caused specific diseases.

Question 22

Octavia Hill

Answer 22

Founder of the national trust.

Question 23

Behing

Answer 23

TB and diphtheria vaccine.

Question 24

Rowntree and Booth

Answer 24

Both separately found that poverty was not due to laziness and drunkenness.

Question 25

Landsteiner

Answer 25

Developed the blood group system

Question 26

Ehrlich

Answer 26

Magic bullets

Question 27

Fleming

Answer 27

Found penicillin

Question 28

Florey and Chain

Answer 28

Developed penicillin in Oxford and took it to the UK for mass production.

Question 29

Anuerin Bevan

Answer 29

Founded the NHS in 1948

Question 30

Beveridge

Answer 30

Worked towards founding Britain s welfare state.

Question 31

Watson and Crick

Answer 31

DNA

Question 32

Barnard

Answer 32

First heart Surgery