GCSE History Famous Health People

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  1. 3. Discovered that infecting someone with cow pox could make them immune to small pox by chance but didn’t know why, leading to mass government vaccination in 1850s
  2. 6. Social reformer wrote a report about poverty leading to 1848 public health act
  3. 9. Discovered carbolic spray could be used as an antisceptic which reduced death rates in mid 19th C
  4. 11. Accidentally discovered penicillin the first antibiotic in 1928
  5. 14. 19th C French chemist who discovered germ theory - by proving microbes caused cause and were not the result of it. This theory had a big impact on medicine eg snow/cholera, lister/antiscepts/ 1875 Health act
  6. 15. Introduced the NHS in 1948 so treatment was free for all people
  7. 18. discovered blood groups so blood transfusions could be done
  8. 19. social reformer who wrote a report suggesting the creation of a welfare state and social security from ‘;cradle to grave’
  9. 20. 19th C German scientist who linked specific diseases to the specific microbe that caused them eg anthrax, tb cholera. He used new scientific techniques dyes to stain bacteria, photography, his work encouraged other microbe hunters
  10. 21. doctor who dissected criminals and wrote many books in 1540s which were printed and widely distributed in Europe, Helped point out Galen’s mistakes (eg no holes in septum)
  11. 23. social reformer in later 19thC who wrote a report stating 1/3 Londoners lived in severe poverty
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  1. 1. doctor who Developed Hippocrates’ ideas of the 4 humours into a theory of opposites. Only doctor supported by Catholic church
  2. 2. first plastic surgeon for army during ww1
  3. 4. nurse in 1850s during Crimean war. Improved standards or care through cleanliness, professionalism and order so death rates fell by nearly half
  4. 5. British doctor in renaissance who observed animal hearts and discovered that blood must circulate
  5. 7. chemist who used laughing gas as anaesthetic but was ignored
  6. 8. helped purify penicillin with Chain and took to America where government paid for mass production
  7. 10. professor of midwifery who used chloroform as a successful anaesthetic
  8. 12. Developed mobile X-ray units to be used in WW1
  9. 13. 18th century surgeon and scientist known for encouraging scientific habitats in surgery like experiementing, testing and elarning
  10. 16. discovered the first silver bullet in 1889 a cure for anthrax 0 ie first medicine that killed specific bacteria in a live human.
  11. 17. French army surgeon working in war which helped him develop medical techniques eg ligatures salves
  12. 18. ……….george introduced liberal reforms to combat poverty just before ww1 eg free school meals national insurance pensions and after the war ‘homes for heros’
  13. 22. Linked cholera to water supply in 19thC