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History
Medicine topic 1250-1700
Question | Answer |
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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 |