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Medical People Flashcards

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Hippocrates

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Ancient Greece - Explained disease through 4 humours, and believed treatment to be exercise, diet and rest

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Galen

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Ancient Rome - developed 4 humours by linking them to elements and seasons, produced theory of opposites as treatment

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Vesalius

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Mid 1500s - proved Galen made mistakes in anatomy-jaw bone and heart (no holes in the septum)

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William Harvey

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Early 1600s - proved blood circulation thereby showing Galen wrong about blood being a fuel

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Edward Jenner

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1790s - smallpox vaccination

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Edwin Chadwick

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1848-1854 - public health reform, the brains behind the Public Health Act 1948

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John Snow

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1854 - linked cholera to polluted water supplies - Broad Street Pump

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Florence Nightingale

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1854 onwards - nursed soldiers in the Crimean War, made nursing respectable. Founded training college

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Louis Pasteur

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1861-1890s - developed germ theory, discovered how vaccinations worked after Koch found out how to isolate and grow bacteria responsible for individual diseases

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Bazalgette

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1860s - engineer behind the building of London’s main sewer systems and pumping stations

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Robert Koch

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1870s-1890s - identified bacteria responsible for individual diseases. Grew bacteria on a solid medium. Stained and photographed bacteria

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Wilhegm Rontgen

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1895 - discovered X-rays

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Paul Elrich

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1909 - first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606

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David Lloyd George

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Early 20th Century - liberal welfare reforms, including the National Insurance Act 1911

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Marie Curie

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Early 1900s - mobile X-ray units, radiotherapy

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Alexander Fleming

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1928 - discovered first antibiotic, penicillan

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Gerhardt Domagk

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1932 - second magic bullet, Prontosil and Sulphonamides

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Howard Florey and Ernst Chain

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1930s onwards - proved penicillin killed infection in humans, assisted in its mass production in USA

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Aneurin Bevan

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1948 - planned the NHS

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Francis Crick, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin

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1953 - discovered the structure of DNA, X-Ray photographs discovered

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