Key Individuals-Medicine Through Time

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Created the Theory of the Four Humours. Known as the "Father of Modern Medicine".
Hippocrates
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Created the Theory of Opposites.
Galen
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Improved the Microscope, "Father of Microbiology".
Leeuwenhoek
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"Fabric of the Human Body". Disproved many of Galen's theories from his work on Anatomy.
Vesalius
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Discovered the blood circulation system in 1628.
Harvey
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Stressed the importance of observing and recording symptoms, "English Hippocrates".
Sydenham
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Nursing work during Crimean War (1854-6).
Nightingale
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Broad Street Pump experiment (1854).
Snow
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Developed the first vaccination for smallpox in the 1790's.
Jenner
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Discovery of chloroform as an anaesthetic, 1847.
Simpson
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Development of antiseptic surgery, beginning with carbolic acid in 1865.
Lister
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Encouraged more government action on public health.
Chadwick
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Identified the individual bacteria which cause diseases.
Koch
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Germ Theory, 1861.
Pasteur
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Developed the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606, in 1909.
Ehrlich
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Discovered the first blood groups in 1900.
Landsteiner
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1942 Beveridge Report.
Beveridge.
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Discovered Penicillin.
Fleming
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Carried out the first human trials of penicillin in 1941.
Florey
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Carried out the first human trials of penicillin in 1941.
Chain
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Minister of health (1945-51) and oversaw the establishment of the NHS in 1948.
Bevan
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Discovered the structure of DNA.
Watson.
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Discovered the structure of DNA.
Crick
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Created the Theory of Opposites.

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Improved the Microscope, "Father of Microbiology".

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"Fabric of the Human Body". Disproved many of Galen's theories from his work on Anatomy.

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Discovered the blood circulation system in 1628.

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