people in medicine and the people Flashcards
When was Al-Nafis about and what did he do?
The 1200s (medieval) figured out how the heart pumps blood 400 years before Harvey did.
When was Al Razi about and what did he do?
800s to 900s, and he figured out the difference between measles and smallpox - and he also wrote the book ‘Doubts about Galen’.
Which book did Avicenna write in the medieval period?
The Canon of Medicine.
What was Roger Bacon arrested for? (medieval monk)
He was arrested due to voicing his doubts about Galen.
Who did the first human to human heart transplant in the 1950s?
Barnard.
What did Bazalgette do in the 1800s?
Helped create the sewers after the great stink? Which was ordered after the very smell and poor air quality started to affect the rich (as well as the poor) - he was head engineer in the project of creating said sewers via using gravity to bring the sewage downriver into the sea (43 miles) and handles hundreds of million of tonnes of sewage.
what did Bevan and Beveridge do?
Bevan was the health minister in 1948, who helped create the NHS.
The Beveridge report was done in 1942 (by Beveridge) and had the 5 giants of welfare (Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness), which laid the foundations for the NHS.
What did Booth do which was similar to Beveridge?
Write a report on the poverty in some part of the uk - he found out that 35% of London lived in absolute poverty in 1899. (You can imagine how much relative poverty there was.)
What did Chadwick help reform (amongst other things)?
The poor laws - he also di a report on sanitary conditions in 1842 as well as campaigned for cities to clean up and form health boards.
Who spread the ideas of Muslim medicine in 1000s in Europe?
Constantine the African
what did crick do?
Helped discover DNAs structure w/ his 3D mode -which helped people understand both how DNA replicated itself and also how it carried genetic information. (1950s)
What did Ehrlich do in the early 1900s?
One of the first ones to develop magic bullets (first intentional antibiotics) salvarsan 606 also he found a cure for syphilis (which was the 606 drug - the same that was meant to be used as an antibiotic)
what did Harvey do - but who did it 500 years before him?
Figured out how blood circulated through the body in the 1700s - al Nafis did it in the 1200s.
what was so important about Hippocrates?
as he was the first western man that showed that disease may not be only to do with the divine.
what did Hustin do in ww1?
find a way to store blood for longer
