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Medicine (William Harvey (Became a lecturer of anatomy in London at the…
Medicine
William Harvey
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Proved Vesalius' blood circulation theory right by using dissected bodies and pumps to show blood only flows one way
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Not many people believed him as Galen was seen as God and no one would question him. He started gaining credibility after he died and by 1700 his work was being taught in medical schools
Vesalius
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Belgian doctor - studied medicine in Paris in 1533 then became a professor of surgery in Padua, Italy
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Encouraged and inspired other medical professionals to carry out dissections and make further discoveries
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Edward Jenner
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He infected local people with cowpox and then tried to infect them with smallpox. None of them caught smallpox
in 1798, the Royal Society refused to publish his ideas so he paid to print his findings
in 1802 the Royal Jennerian Society was set up to promote vaccination, by 1804 12000 British people had been vaccinated
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People opposed Jenner because they thought it was wrong to give people an animals disease, it interfered with God's plan and doctors lost money when the government made vaccination free
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Florence Nightingale
She attended the first nurses' training school in Kaiserwerth hospital, Germany
She was asked to lead a team of nurses at the military hospital in Scutari during the Crimean War (1854-56)
She believed that miasma caused disease so emphasised hygiene, fresh air, good supplies and training for nurses. Her approach lowered the death rate at Scutari hospital from 42% to 2%
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