medicine: people

Question 1

galen

Answer 1

carried out dissections and his results were widely taught

Question 2

hippocrates

Answer 2

physical reason for illness which needed a physical cure

Question 3

thomas syndeham

Answer 3

disease had nothing to do with the nature of the person who had it

Question 4

besalius

Answer 4

disproved galens theory that the jaw had 2 bones- it only had 1

Question 5

harvey

Answer 5

arteries and veins were part of one system and that blood was pumped around the body

Question 6

florence nightingale

Answer 6

she transformed hospitals to being clean and hygienic so people wouldn’t get infections

Question 7

louis pasteur

Answer 7

germ theory-microbes in the air cause decay and spontaneous generation was wrong

Question 8

robert koch

Answer 8

microbes cause disease and found specific microbes for tb and cholera

Question 9

lister

Answer 9

way to prevent wounds from getting infected during surgery- antiseptica

Question 10

jenner

Answer 10

discovered the vaccination for small pox made from cow pox

Question 11

john snow

Answer 11

found that cholera was caused by one water pump and when he removed the handle the deaths fell drastically

Question 12

watson crick wilkins and franklin

Answer 12

discovered how genetic codes of dna fitted together and its double helix structure

Question 13

fleming

Answer 13

discovered penicillin when bacteria in a petri dish was killed by penicillium mold

Question 14

florey and chain

Answer 14

showed that pencillin was effective on mice and therefore humans