Medical Figures
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- Hippocrates
- 'Father of Medicine', 5th century BC, Kos, clinical observation, Theory of the Four Humours - black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm, balance of humours
- Galen
- Roman, use of opposites, textbooks, brain controls the body, showman, doctor to the Emperor(s),1st century AD, pig experiment
- Koch
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Identified germ causing a specific disease (anthrax first - created mouse experiment - 20 generations of mice proved that he had found the right germ; produced vaccines following Pasteur's breakthrough; German; government investment in his research; rivalry with Pasteur.
- Pare
- Barber surgeon; ligatures; ointment rather than cauterising with hot oil; 16th century; Renaissance; chance = Factor.
- Vesalius
- Professor at Padua University; Renaissance; skeleton; artists; printing; 'Fabric of the Human Body', 1543;dissection; proved Galen had made mistakes.