Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Medicine & Treatment
(Key Individuals)
- Hippocrates
- Greek Doctor who created the
theory of the 4 humours
- Galen
- Developed the theory of the 4
humours and created the theory of
opposites
- Versailius
- Proved Galen's theories wrong by stating that: the
human jaw was made up of only one bone
- He wrote "The fabric of the human body"
- First person to dissect humans
- Harvey
- Proved Galen wrong by stating the liver did NOT
produced new blood but the same blood moved
around the body
- Also proved that blood didn't move
through the septum of the heart
- John Snow
- Saw the link between dirty water
and Cholera in 1800s
- William Farr
- Used stats to prove
Snow correct
- Bazelgette
- Created the London sewer system to
keep streets clean
- Edwin Chadwick
- Suggested that taxes from middle class
should be used to improve hygiene for the
poor
- Wrote "The sanitary conditions of the
labouring population 1842
- Ehrlich, Von Behring & Sahachiro Hata
- Created first magic bullet "Salvarson 606"
- Gerhard Domgk
- Created second magic bullet
"Prontonsil"
- Beveridge
- Came up with the concept
for NHS in the 1940s
- Bevan
- Health minister who brought in the NHS in 1948
- Florence Nightingale
- Improved hygiene in hospitals and so
helped lower death rates in hospitals
- Elizabeth Garret-Anderson
- Fought for right to allow females
to train as doctors
- Fleming
- Discovered Penicillin
- Florey & Chain
- Tried to get Penicillin
mass-produced
- Pasteur
- Created the Germ Theory
- Robert Koch
- Developed Pasteur's germ theory to
show bacteria caused disease
- Leeuwenhoek
- Improved lenses for microscopes
so improved research
- Jenner
- Created first vaccinations
- Vaccination against
smallpox