Key Individuals - MTT

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Key Individuals in the Medicine Through Time History Topic
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GALEN: a physician, writer and philosopher who became the most famous doctor in the Roman Empire and whose theories dominated European medicine for 1,500 years. Galen put forward the theory that illness was caused by an imbalance of the four humours: blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile. He recommended specific diets to help in the "cleansing of the putrefied juices" and often purging and bloodletting would be used. This theory was accepted until challenged by Paracelsus who believed that illness was the result of the body being attacked by outside agents. With the use of experiment Galen showed that the arteries carried blood and not air as was commonly believed. He also understood the value of the pulse in diagnosis. However Galen also believed (incorrectly) that blood was continuously being made and used up. As well as running a busy medical practice he ran his own pharmacy, stocked with his own medicines made from animal and vegetables extracts, many of the plants being grown in his own garden. Galen catalogued in great detail various remedies including how each was made and the correct doses to be given.
Hippocrates Hippocrates
Pythagoras Pythagoras
Mary Seacole Mary Seacole
Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale
Joseph Lister Joseph Lister
Ignaz Semmelweiz Ignaz Semmelweiz
Ambroise Pare Ambroise Pare
Andreas Versalius Andreas Versalius
William Harvey William Harvey
Edward Jenner Edward Jenner
Lady Mary Wortley-Montague Lady Mary Wortley-Montague
Florey and Chain Florey and Chain
Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch Robert Koch
James Simpson James Simpson
Alexander Fleming Alexander Fleming
John Snow John Snow
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