The 19th century Flashcards
Who was Charles Cagniard de la Tour?
In the 1830s, he was an early critic of the popular idea of Spontaneous Generation, which he thought was wrong.
Who was Edwin Chadwick?
He published a report in 1842, that suggested the government needed to do more for the poor in big cities as a way of dealing with big outbreaks of illness.
Who was James Simpson?
He developed the first popular anesthetic, after discovering chloroform had the ability to make you unconscious for periods of time.
Who was Florence Nightingale?
Improved hospital training and conditions after experiencing how bad things were in the Crimean War of 1853.
Who was John Snow?
He made chloroform safer by inventing a dispenser. Later, in 1854, he used an outbreak of cholera in Soho, London to prove the link between water and that disease.
Who was Joseph Bazalgette?
After the Great Stink of 1858, he was employed by the government to improve the sewage systems in London.
Who was Louis Pasteur?
He published his 4 principles of germ theory in 1861.
Who was John Tyndall?
Helped make germ theory more believable and popular in Britain in the 1870s by proving the existence of small organic particles in the air and linking Pasteur’s successes to the successes of Joseph Lister - a surgeon who had been experimenting with carbolic acid as an antiseptic.
Who was Robert Koch?
“If Pasteur gave us the alphabet, Koch wrote books.” Koch discovered specific germs for specific diseases in the 1880s, such as cholera and tuberculosis.
Who was William Watson Cheyne?
He developed antiseptic surgery and a surgical instrument we still use today, the Watson Cheyne dissector
