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History
Medicine topic 1250-1700
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Andreas Vesalius do? | Proved Galen wrong about the jaw and heart |
| What did Claudius Galen do? | Used treatment of opposites and discovered the brain controls the body |
| What did Hippocrates do? | Developed the theory of the 4 Humours and an oath |
| What did William Harvey do? | Discovered blood circulated in one direction |
| What did Ambroise Pare do? | Used ligatures and his own ointment instead of cauterisation |
| What did John Snow do? | Discovered a link between polluted water and cholera |
| what did Louis Pasteur do? | Discovered germs caused disease |
| What did Robert Koch do? | Identified different bacteria causing disease |
| What did Joseph Lister do? | Discovered that carbolic acid kills germs |
| What did James Simpson do? | Discovered that chloroform was an effective anaesthetic |
| What did Alexander Fleming do? | Discovered Penicillin |
| What did Avicenna do? | Wrote a million word medical textbook in the Middle Ages |
| What did Edward Jenner do? | Discovered that Cowpox was a good vaccination for Smallpox |
| What did Florence Nightingale do? | Improved standard of nursing, opened a school for nurses |
| What did Thomas Sydenham do? | Known as the English Hippocrates, made diagnosis important |
| What did Florey and Chain do? | Purified and developed Penicillin |