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I am known as the Father of Medicine

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Hippocrates

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In 1860 I set up the first ‘Training School for Nurses’

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Nightingale

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We ran hospitals in the middle ages

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The Catholic Church, Nuns

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I conducted careful dissection on humans and found no holes in the septum

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Vesalius

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I was the guinea pig for testing small pox

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James Phipps

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I was the minister in charge of introducing the National Health Service in 1948

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Bevan

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I came up with the Germ Theory in 1861

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Pasteur

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I took the handle off the pump in Broad Street

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John Snow

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I was the Roman God of Healing

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Asclepius

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I am the smell that meant parliament could not meet in 1858

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The Great Stink

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We took penicillin to the USA to get them to mass produce it

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Florey & Chain

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I came up with the Theory of Opposites

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Galen

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I published ‘The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population’

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Chadwick

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I came up with the second magic bullet (Prontosil)

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Domagk

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I am a county doctor from Gloucestershire

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Jenner

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We investigated the structure of DNA

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Franklin, Watson & Crick

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I was a famous German doctor and rival of Pasteur

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Koch

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At St Mary’s Hospital, London in 1928, I discovered the properties of penicillin

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Fleming

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I brought inoculation from Turkey

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Lady Wortley Montagu

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I came up with the first magic bullet

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Ehrlich

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I published ‘An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals’ in 1628

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Harvey

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I isolated anti-toxins

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Behring

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We helped finance penicillin to get it mass-produced for the war effort

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American Government

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I wrote a report in 1942 about the 5 giants of society

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Beveridge

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My ideas were believed for 1500 years

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Galen

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