Medicine Through Time

Edward Jenner 1749-1823, English physician, who is credited with successfully introducing the practice of vaccinating against smallpox.

Sir Alexander Fleming 1881-1955, Scottish bacteriologist, discoverer of penicillin in 1928 and lysozyme in 1922.

Florey and Chain were scientists. They came across Flemings documents and were intrigued by his findings. Fleming discovered penicillin that could save a lot of lives but couldnt fully justify his discovery, but Florey and Chain did and made it much easier to fight infectious diseases and prevent other infections from spreading.

Andreas Vesalius 1514-64, was an anatomist. He made many discoveries in anatomy and became professor of anatomy at the Universaty of Padua. There he produced his document " The Fabric Of the Human Body" in 1543, based on studies made by dissection of human arteries

The first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain in 1836.

Louis Pasteur 1822-95, French chemist who experimented with bacteria and concluded the theory of spontaneous generation false and led to the germ theory of infection in 1862.

In 1953, Watson and Crick used these plastic tubes to construct the first correct model of DNA structure.

William Harvey 1578-1657, English physician. He was the first to demonstrate the function of the heart and the complete circulation of the blood.

He studied bacteria and discovered that there are specific types of bacteria that cause tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax during each epidemic around defferent areas in England.

She was working in the field of radioactivity and x-rays, she contributed in the development of the x-rays.

The Egyptians were advanced medical practitioners for their time. They were masters of human anatomy and healing because of the extensive mummification ceremonies they had to practice. This involved removing most of the internal organs including the brain, lungs, pancreas, liver, spleen, heart and intestine.

The civilization of ancient Greece was at its most powerful and advanced around 600 to 300 BC. During this period Greek wealth and power allowed doctors and philosophers to develop advanced medical theories as part of a mass of cultural and scientific innovations. Greeks travelled and traded widely, collecting and developing medical ideas from other and earlier civilizations.

Roman medicine was a mixture of new theories from the developments of Greek knowledge and practice. Medicine was improved through the studies of Galen, through a desire to maintain a fit and healthy army and through observation. Medicine in Ancient Rome also brought about some great developments of Public Health facilities.