GCSE History of Medicine: Key Individuals

1800-1900
1. Louis Pasteur
  1. Germ theory
2. Florence Nightingale
  1. Improvements to hospitals
  2. Setup first Nursing Schools
  3. Invented the Pie Chart
3. Robert Koch
  1. Categorising and classification of germs
4. Edwin Chadwick
  1. Reported on poverty
  2. Public Health
5. John Snow
  1. Public Health improvements
  2. Proved link between water and cholera
Ancient Greece
1. Galen
  1. Theory of Opposites
2. Hippocrates
  1. The 4 Humors
  2. Clinical Observation
  3. The Hippocratic Oath
The Renaissance 1400-1650
1. Vesalius
  1. Dissections
  2. Human Anatomy
2. Harvey
  1. Blood Circulation
3. Pare
  1. Ligatures
  2. Less painful blood loss techniques
1650-1800
1. Edward Jenner
  1. Smallpox Vaccine
1900-1950
1. Alexander Flemming
  1. Discovery of Penicillin
2. Marie Curie
  1. Mobile X-Ray Machines
  2. Discovered Radium
  3. Radiography & Radiotherapy
3. Florey & Chain
  1. Improvements to Penicillin
4. Aneurin Bevan
  1. Founding of the NHS
5. Archibald McIndoe
  1. Early plastic surgery
This is key information for the exam! Please keep in mind I sat these exams in 2014, so check it still applies to the modern curriculum before taking information for granted!

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