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Who was Hippocrates and what was he famous for?
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Who: Hippocrates (460-377 BC), Greek doctor.
What: developed 'Hippocratic oath.' Taught that disease came from natural causes, and taught trainee doctors to examine/observe patients carefully.
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Who was Aristotle and why was he famous?
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Who: Aristotle (384-322 BC)
What: used ideas of other Greek Philosophers to develop theory of 4 humours, that body was made up of 4 fluids, these were linked to the 4 seasons and elements.
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Who was Pyhtagoras and what did he think?
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Pythagoras (580-500 BC) thought life was about the balance of opposites.
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Who was Galen and what was he famous for?
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Who: Galen (AD 129-199) was a Greek Doctor.
What: discovered lots of new info about anatomy. disected Pigs, dogs, apes & some humans. He had to base his theories about us on animal experiments.
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What was Galen's famous mistake?
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He thought that the heart was divided into 2 parts, each carrying 2 seperate lots of blood around the body. People believed Galen's wrong ideas for the next 1500 years.
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Who was Avicenna and hat was he famous for?
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Was a Persian physician (AD 980- 1037) , he wrote a million word book on medicine. It contained all sorts of treatments for all known diseases and was used by trainee doctors as a textbook until the 1960s!
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Who was Paré and what was he famous for?
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Who: Paré (1520-1590)
What: became an army surgeon, treated battle wounds of french army. invented method of tying off vessels with threads (ligatures). He also designed quite sophisticated artificial legs.
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Who was Versalius and what was he famous for?
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Who: Versaluis (1514-1564)
What: Was an Italian doctor, he made accurate drawings from dissections. He pinched a body from a gibbet (execution-hangings).
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Who was Harvey and What was he famous for ?
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Who: William Harvey (1578-1657)
What: He was a doctor and alsp a physician, he discovered that the heart acts as a pump, circulating the SAME blood all the time. He showed that the blood pumped blood through arteries and the blood returned to the heart through the veins.
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Who was Jenner and what was he famous for?
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Who: Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was a country doctor in Gloucestershire.
What: Heard that milkmaids didn't get smallpox, but they did catch the much milder cowpox. He investigated and discovered that people who had cowpox didn't get smallpox. Experimented on a little boy. Became famous even amongst Native Americans.
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Who was Pasteur and why was he famous?
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Who: Pasteur (1822-1895)
What: Was the 1st to suggest that germs cause disease. Was asked to find out what makes company's beetroot alcahol turn sour. He prooved that there were germs in the air.
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Who was Nightingale and why was she famous?
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Who: Nightingale (1820-1910)
What: Was a nurse during the Crimean war, went to Scutari to sort out the nursing care in hospitals. Took with her 38 hand-picked nurses and improved the higeine of the hospital. The death rate had dropped from 43% to 2% in 2 years.
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Who was Lister and what was he famous for?
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Who:Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
What:Used Carbonic Acid on instruments and bandages to keep the surgical instruments sterile.
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Who was Kock and what was he famous for?
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Who: Robert Koch (1843-1910), German Scientist.
What: Prooved germs caused disease in humans. He was able to identify the germs causing the deadly diseases TB,& Cholera.
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Who was Marie Curie and what was she famous for?
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Who: Marie Curie (1867-1934) polish scientist
What: Discovered the element radium.
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