Individual impact on medicine
Florence Nightingale
Crimean War 1850 - 1853
Brought in hygiene practices
Brought in nurses for to care for patients
Develop nursing routines
Set up nursing schools
Set up minimum standards for care / nursing
Joseph Lister
Robert Koch
John Hunter
William Harvey
John Snow
Louis Pasteur
Edward Jenner
1843 - 1910
The first person to prove that disease s caused by germs in humans
Developed a method for identifying specific disease causing microbes.
End of rennisance
Disagreed with galen
He thought that blood circulated thought the body
Specifically challenged the production of blood he proved that boan marrow dose not the liver.
Furthered understanding allowing future individuals to success leding to future discovery.
It took 50 years to be accepted as standard practice in medical school
Anatomy + Disection
Scientific method + experimenting
Royal collage of surgeons
Healed an anyrisum
Tested with specimens
Ideas on gun shot wounds
Blood information and gunshot wounds
Looked at cancers
Scientific method
Antiseptic surgery
Carbolic soap to disinfect
made peoples hands dry up and crack
not great t breathe in
took a while for nurses to prepare.
Wound dressings soaked in carbocyclic acid to be sterilized.
Proved germ theory with scientific evidence
Scientific approach
Scientific approach
Ideas not immediately accepted in Brittan
Germ theory
Specific germs cause disease
germs cause disease
specifisity
Vesalius
Directions were done to claim and prove Galen's ideas
Dissections
Accurate textbooks
Helped future surgeons
rennesance
Scientific approach
Work on cholera
Scientific approach
Death map to track the spread of the disease.
Broad street pump is the cause
The handle to the water pump removed to stop the cholera spread.
Scientific approach
Smallpox vaccine
Cowpox used to vaccinate against smallpox
Vaccination became more popular and safer than inoculation..
Not fully accepted to start with as he could not explain how it works.