Key Individuals Flashcards
I am known as the Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
In 1860 I set up the first ‘Training School for Nurses’
Nightingale
We ran hospitals in the middle ages
The Catholic Church, Nuns
I conducted careful dissection on humans and found no holes in the septum
Vesalius
I was the guinea pig for testing small pox
James Phipps
I was the minister in charge of introducing the National Health Service in 1948
Bevan
I came up with the Germ Theory in 1861
Pasteur
I took the handle off the pump in Broad Street
John Snow
I was the Roman God of Healing
Asclepius
I am the smell that meant parliament could not meet in 1858
The Great Stink
We took penicillin to the USA to get them to mass produce it
Florey & Chain
I came up with the Theory of Opposites
Galen
I published ‘The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population’
Chadwick
I came up with the second magic bullet (Prontosil)
Domagk
I am a county doctor from Gloucestershire
Jenner
We investigated the structure of DNA
Franklin, Watson & Crick
I was a famous German doctor and rival of Pasteur
Koch
At St Mary’s Hospital, London in 1928, I discovered the properties of penicillin
Fleming
I brought inoculation from Turkey
Lady Wortley Montagu
I came up with the first magic bullet
Ehrlich
I published ‘An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals’ in 1628
Harvey
I isolated anti-toxins
Behring
We helped finance penicillin to get it mass-produced for the war effort
American Government
I wrote a report in 1942 about the 5 giants of society
Beveridge
My ideas were believed for 1500 years
Galen