GCSE History of Medicine: Key Individuals

GCSE History of Medicine: Key Individuals

1. 1800-1900

   • Louis Pasteur
     • Germ theory
   • Florence Nightingale
     • Improvements to hospitals
     • Setup first Nursing Schools
     • Invented the Pie Chart
   • Robert Koch
     • Categorising and classification of germs
   • Edwin Chadwick
     • Reported on poverty
     • Public Health
   • John Snow
     • Public Health improvements
     • Proved link between water and cholera

2. Ancient Greece

   • Galen
     • Theory of Opposites
   • Hippocrates
     • The 4 Humors
     • Clinical Observation
     • The Hippocratic Oath

3. The Renaissance 1400-1650

   • Vesalius
     • Dissections
     • Human Anatomy
   • Harvey
     • Blood Circulation
   • Pare
     • Ligatures
     • Less painful blood loss techniques

4. 1650-1800

   • Edward Jenner
     • Smallpox Vaccine

5. 1900-1950

   • Alexander Flemming
     • Discovery of Penicillin
   • Marie Curie
     • Mobile X-Ray Machines
     • Discovered Radium
     • Radiography & Radiotherapy
   • Florey & Chain
     • Improvements to Penicillin
   • Aneurin Bevan
     • Founding of the NHS
   • Archibald McIndoe
     • Early plastic surgery

6. This is key information for the exam! Please keep in mind I sat these exams in 2014, so check it still applies to the modern curriculum before taking information for granted!