medicine individuals

Question 1

what impact did William Harvey have in the short term

Answer 1

book ‘on the motion of the heart’ challenged Galen. He experimented on animals and discovered how blood pumped round the body in a citlrcular motion, proved it was impossible to have too much blood

Question 2

what impacts did William Harvey have in the long term

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helped the discovery of capillaries 60 years later and helped the understanding of the heart and kidney disease

Question 3

What did Ambroise Paré do in the short term

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ran out of oil for cauterisation so used a mixture of egg yolk, turpentine and oil of roses which was better and less painful

Question 4

what did ambroise paré do in the long term

Answer 4

used ligatures to tie off wounds and invented the crows beak clamp to halt bleeding, developed artificial limbs, wrote “Les Ouvres” which was widely used

Question 5

what did Alexander Flemming do in the short term

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discovered penicillin by growing it from his Sandwich on a petri dish when he went away

Question 6

what did Alexander flemming do in the long term

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inspired Florey and chain who went on to produce penicillin on a mass scale

Question 7

what did Harold Gilles do in the short term

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developed new facial injuries, over 5,000 soldiers had grafted skin put onto injuries, became a pioneer of plastic surgery

Question 8

what did Harold Gilles do in the long term

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helped his patients reintegrate into society, improved skin grafting techniques

Question 9

what did John snow do in the short term

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claimed cholera was spread by dirty water, removed a dirty pump and the disease stopped in that area

Question 10

what did John snow do in the long term

Answer 10

influenced the Public Health Acts of 1875 and Sanitary Act of 1866

Question 11

what did Pail Ehrlich do in the short term

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developed Salvarson 606 which was the first effective treatment for syphilis in 1910

Question 12

what did Paul Ehrlich do in the long term

Answer 12

developed the first one of magic bullets which had little or no effect on other parts of the body

Question 13

what did John Arderne do in the short term

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50% success with anus surgery l, worked in the 100 years war and developed painkilling ointments which reduced cauterisations

Question 14

what did John Arderne do in the long term

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wrote “a practice for surgery” in 1350 which challenged galen and hippocrates with safer techniques

Question 15

what did avicenna do in the short term

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anaesthetised patients with cannabis and opium, used Mercury and alcohol as antiseptics, and had rules about hygiene

Question 16

what did avicenna do in the long term

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wrote Canon of medicine which was used well into the 17th century

Question 17

what did Joseph lister do in the short term

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started using an operating room using carbolic acid and sterling the wounds and dressing, developed in 1871 a machine to spray carbolic acid over everything, death rate fell from 46% to 15% in 3 years

Question 18

what did Joseph lister do in the long term

Answer 18

was known as the ‘ father of antiseptic surgery’ and was the first to develop it