History of medicine

Edward Jenner

Vacation

Cured small pox using cow pox- realised milk made didn’t have small pox because they had cow pox

Tested it on a small boy who had small pox

Louis pasture

Germ theory

Wrote a book on it

Figured out food spoilt because of contamination by invisible bacteria

Rober kock

Added to Louis pastures work

Discovered different bacteria causes different diseases

Hippocrates

Father of modern medicine

Theory of the four humours

Galen

Dissected animals and beloved them to have the same biology as a human- he dissected pigs and monkey

The church followed and taught his work as he mentioned a creator in his work

John snow

Got rid of cholera

He discovered that everyone getting ill was drinking from the same water pump and to prevent this he broke the handle off the water pump- the death rate decreased a lot

William Harvey

Circulatory system

Versailles

Proved Galens discoveries to be wrong as he dissected actual human bodies

E.g. the human only has one jaw bone not two