Medicine Key People

Question 1

Hippocrates influence

Answer 1

Till 1800s

Taught observation

Question 2

Avicenna

Answer 2

Wrote canon of medicine
Brought classic knowledge back to Europe
Influenced till 1700s

Question 3

John ardene

Answer 3

1376

Improved ointments and created anaesthetic

Question 4

Para

Answer 4

Army barber surgeon
Made ointment instead of burning
Made ligatures instead of cauterising
Long term impact

Question 5

Harvey

Answer 5

Proved Galen wrong on blood circulation

Work was rejected by conservatives

Question 6

Vesalius

Answer 6

Dissected humans and proved Galen wrong
Fabric of human body
Little impact
Was first steps to treatments

Question 7

John Hunter

Answer 7

Encouraged human dissection

Influenced Edward Jenner

Question 8

Edward Jenner

Answer 8

Created vaccination and England made it compulsory

Lack of understanding meant opposition was faced

Question 9

Louis Pasteur

Answer 9

Proved germs are in the air and cause disease
Helped by microscope
Took several years to impact but impacted
Joseph lister
John snow

Question 10

Robert Koch

Answer 10

Built on Pasteur
Make specific microbes link to specific diseases
Helped create microbe hunters

Question 11

Paul elrich

Answer 11

Created Salvarsan 606 which targeted a specific bacteria