Communication and medicine

Communication and medicine

1. Hippocrates and Galen both wrote books

   • These became the basis of medical training up to the Renaissance

2. Development of the Printing Press in 1451

   • Before this books could only be copied by hand
     • Quick communication of ideas was now possible

3. Vesalius, Pare and Harvey

   • They all communicated their ideas through writing books

4. Fleming and Penicillin

   • He discovered it and wrote his findings in a research paper in 1929
     • This was then developed by Florey and Chain in the 1930s