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11 Cards in this Set
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Galen
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-Stole bodies to dissect
-Based his theories on animal dissection -he made mistakes -he invented treatment of opposites -wrote influential books |
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Hippocrates
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-founded the four humours
-founding father of medicine -founded the clinical method of observation -founded the hypocratic oath -wrote the hypocratic corpus |
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Avicenna
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-wrote a one million word book
-wrote the canon of medicine -didn't agree with all Galens theories -introduced natural ideas to western europe -introduced medical school and exams |
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Vesalius
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-wrote anatomical books
-dissected bodies -wrote 'Tabulae sex' and 'the fabric of the human body' -illustrated and annotated detailed drawings -pointed out Galens mistakes-no holes in the septum of the heart |
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Pare
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-barber surgeon
-worked for public hospital and then army surgeon -invented ligatures -discovered a better ointment by chance when they ran out of oil -as he was surgeon to the king of France, the king helped his methods get accepted |
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Harvey
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-royal physician
-compared animal an human anatomy -proved Galens blood theory wrong -distinguishes veins from arteries -noticed blood changed colour when it passes through lungs |
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Jenner
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-developed the vaccine for smallpox
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Florence Nightingale
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-became a nurse in 1849
-improved ward hygiene -improved death rate -wrote 'notes on nursing' -raised £44000 to set up her own nursing school |
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Mary Jane Seacole
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-volunteered to help in the Crimean war but was rejected on racist grounds
-she nursed soldiers on battlefield -she couldn't find work and went bankrupt, but she received press on her story. |
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Pasteur
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-Pasteur visited a brewery and discovered that heat kills bacteria.
-he proved that germs were in the air by sterilising some water and keeping it in a flask so it never bred micro-organisms. The water without a flask bred micro-organisms. |
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Koch
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He identified anthrax spores and the bacteria that causes septicaemia, TB and cholera.
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