Individulals Flashcards
Hippocrates
4 humours
Hippocratic Corpus (books)
Clinical Observation
Greek
Who is the best mum in the world?
Karina of course
Galen
Roman 130-200ad
Anatomy/dissection- Uncontested until 1543
Established 4 humours as yellow bile, black bile, blood phlegm
c500 books -On Natural Faculties
Andreas Vesalius
Belgium 1514
Dissection (human body)
On the Fabric of the Human Body 1543
Anatomy corrected Galen
Ambroise Pare
1510-1590 France
Ointment
Ligatures
Instruments
Scientific investigation (bezoar)
William Harvey
1578-1657 English
Circulation
The Heart
Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals
Edward Jenner
England 1749-1823
Inoculations
Vaccination (smallpox)
Opposition
Florence Nightingale
1820-1910 English
Crimea war
Notes for Nursing
School for nurses
Louis Pasteur
French 1822-1895
Germ Theory
Vaccination
Chamerland and chicken cholera
Robert Koch
1843-1910 German
Germs
Bacteria cause disease
Other bacteria identified
James Simpson
1811-1870 Scottish
Chloroform
opposition
Anaesthetics
Joseph Lister
1827-1912 England
Outstanding surgeon
Carbolic spray
opposition to antiseptic
Alexander Fleming
1881-1955 Scottish
penicillin 1928
Florey and Chain
early to mid 20th century Australia and Germany
Development of penicillin
mass production
factors that aided
Mary Seacole
1805-1881 Jamaica
Nurse Crimean war.
British hotel
John Arderne
1307-1392 English surgeon
Abdominal surgery
Hemlock
Anaesthetics
Ibn Al-Nafis
1213-1288 Syria and Egypt
Physician, encyclopaedia of medicine
Famous hospital, patients divided by illness
Rhazes
865 -925 ad Iran
Alchymist and philosopher
book on home medical remidies. Outstanding for his time (dark ages)
Charles Chamberland
1851-1908 French
Chicken cholera
John Snow
1813-1853
Pump
Not miasma
Queen Victoria Chloroform
chloroform inhaler
Winter is coming
Edwin Chadwick
1800-1890 England
Believed in miasma
Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Populations 1842
Inspired the Public Health Act 1848
Public Health Act 1854
Ignaz Semmelweiss
1818-1865 Hungary
Tried to reduce child bed fever
Doctor came straight from mortuary to the women giving birth
Tried to make them wash their hands
Karl Landsteiner
1868-1943 Austria
Developed the classification of blood groups enabling transfusions
Paul Ehrlich
1854-1915 German
Developed the concept of the ‘magic bullet’
First treatment for syphilis and diphtheria
William Beveridge
1879-1963 England
Beverage Report- Welfare State
Social Reformer
Aneurin Bevan
1897-1960 Wales
Helped with the foundation of the National Health Service
