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| Question | Answer |
| Robert Liston | He was a Scottish surgeon who was known for his skill before anesthetics. Could amputate a leg in 28 seconds. |
| James Simpson | Discovered how Chloroform could be used as an anaesthetic and introduced it into general medicine uses. |
| Florence Nightingale | She nursed soldiers in the Crimean War and transformed hospitals to be cleaner places. She was the founder of modern nursing. |
| Joseph Lister | Discovered antiseptic surgery. Found that germs carried in the air caused infections to surgical wounds. |
| Robert Koch | Considered the founder of modern bacteriology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1905 because of his large contribution to 'Magic Bullets.' |
| Dr Morton | He is recognised for making medical practise accept anaesthetic. First used Ether. |
| Karl Landsteiner | Biologist and physician and famous for finding the main blood groups in 1901. |
| Richard Lewisohn | He discovered that sodium citrate stopped blood from clotting in surgery. |
| Richard Weil | Found that blood could be stored in refrigerated conditions. |
| Francis Rous + James Turner | Found that adding citrate glucose to blood enabled it to be stored for longer. |
| Harold Gilles | He did great work on plastic surgery in WW1 and moved to France where he became interested in plastic surgery of the face. |
| Wilhelm Roentgen | Won a Nobel Prize by producing and detecting electromagnet radiation in a wavelength. Discovered/invented X-Rays. |
| Alexander Wood | He was a Scottish physician and invented the first hypodermic syringe. |
| Louis Pasteur | Developed vaccines that protected millions of lives. His knowledge that germs caused diseases changed healthcare and he found new ways to make our food safe to eat. GERM THEORY!!! |
| John Snow | He found the cause to an outbreak of cholera was a water pump even though everyone was sure it was airborne. INVENTED CHLOROFORM INHALER!!! |
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