Significant Individuals. Flashcards
Learn these individuals significance to health.
Who was galen
He was a Greek doctor that came up with the theory or the 4 humours which interlocked with the 4 seasons.
Who was hipocraties
He was a Roman doctor that built on Galen’s 4 humours theory and came up with the theory of opposites.
William Harvey
He discovered that the heart pumped blood in a circular motion around the human body. This ment that people rearlise that letting blood to balance out the 4 humours wasn’t the best idea.
Ambrose pare.
He started to understand how to amputate limbs properly by using ligatures to tie off the blood vessels.
Andreas Vesalius.
He discovered that the human anatomy was different to Apes and other mammals.
Thomas Coram
looked after homeless people and was said to be the first charity
James Lind
conducted the first ever clinical trial
Lady Johanne St John
wrote herbal recipe books.
made a cure for a bleeding nose.
Jane sharp
Published a book on child birth which educated other people how to deliver babies correctly.
Robert Burton
published a study on mental health.
Sir John Floyer
Researched and wrote a book on astmah and ‘cures’ for it.
Alaxander Gordon
Discovered that you need to wash your hands before delivering a baby to stop pathogens getting into the woman through the woom and getting to the new born.
John Hunter
Discovered that you needed to keep a wound clean to have it repair and stop pathogens entering via the wound.
Thomas Sydenham.
Belived that different illnesses had different characteristics. raised awareness and people couldn’t use the same cure for all illnesses.
Edward Jenner.
Saw that milkmen wouldn’t catch smallpox because they would suffer from cowpox.
He then injected cowpox into a boy named James Philips.
He then injected James with smallpox after he recovered.
He survived because of Jenner’s vaccination. the first ever.
