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key people in the history Flashcards

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Hippocrates

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the father medicine

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Galen

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expanded on Hippocrates ideas and had people following his ideas for 1000 years

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Vesalius

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challenged Galen’s ideas encouraged dissection proved Galen wrong on many occasions

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Harvey

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proved Galen wrong, blood was forced round the body by the heart

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Jenner

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created the vaccination against small pocks

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Pasteur

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discovered bacteria, (accidentally) discovered the cure for chicken cholera

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koch

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discovered which microbes caused anthrax in sheep and later tuberculosis and cholera

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