Medical Pioneers - Not including WW1 Flashcards by Joseph 123 | Brainscape

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Galen

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Developed Hippocrates’ ideas

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Hippocrates

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Invented the Theory of the 4 humors

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Thomas Sydenham

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Progress in diagnosis - each disease is different

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Richard Lower

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Made the first experimental blood transfusion

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Johannes Gutenburg

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Invented the printing press

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Robert Hooke

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Invented the microscope

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William Harvey

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Discovered the circulation of blood

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Louis Pasteur

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Invented Germ theory - 1861

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Robert Koch

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Identified that different germs cause different diseases

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Florence Nightingale

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discovered the idea of keeping hospitals clean

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James Simpson

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Introduced Chloroform as an anesthetic

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Joseph Lister

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Antiseptic surgery - the carbolic acid sprayer

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Edward Jenner

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Developed the small pox vaccine

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Dr John Snow

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Discovered how cholera was spread

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Watson and Crick

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Discovered the double helix structure of DNA

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Franklin and Wilkins

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Produced X-Ray pictures of the structure of DNA

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Paul Ehrlich

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Discovered the first cure for syphilis (Salvarsan 606)

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Gerhard Domagk

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Discovered Prontosil

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Alexander Fleming

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Discovered that Penicillin kills bacteria

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Florey and Chain

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Purified penicillin to work on humans