doctors through time; who, when and what

[mollykins]

Most of my exams will be quite easy to me, and for history, i have the technique and know how to answer depending on how the questions are worded. But i struggle to remember peoples' names, what they did and when, can you think of ways of helping to remember, such as pneumonics or rhymes??

Some people like Jenner, Pasteur and Fleming, i've been taught about many times, over many years, in history and science, so there names and what they did are embeded in my memory, but with other things i get confused.

Hippocrates the greek, the four humours, observe an illness before treating

Galen-the-Greek who went to rome, could only dissect animals and said humans were the same inside.

Vesalius from the renaissance who dissected stuff and proved that we are different to animals

Pare was a battlefield doctor who ran out of boiling oil to use on wounds, so used roman herbs and the soldiers survived. 'don't do something that doesn't work, just because its been done for hundreds of years, if there's a better remedy, use it!'

Harvey the 16th centuary doctor who discovered that blood pumps around the body

John snow realised that cholera was being spread from a certain water pump because a woman who lived near it didn't use it and never got cholera (or was it that she lvied a logn way away and she did get cholera and none of her neighbours did?)

Chadwick was from the industrial revolution time who wrote a report saying that if they improved the conditions for the poor people, their rich factory owner bosses would benefit aswell as they would have more fit and healthy workers.

Lister was a victorian doctor who discovered and promoted antiseptic surgery

Simpson gave chloroform to queen victoria, after which more people used it.

[bibblebub]

pneumonics have been blown up out of all proportion

[bobjugs12]

David Tennant is my favourite, although Tom Baker was also very good. I do like the latest fella as well.



What was that.....wrong doctors......sorry, i'll fetch my coat. Taxi for one please

[cazzz1975]

strange criteria for gcse history, you had better google what gcse history actually covers..

[Prudie]

It's mnemonics Molly, might look at the rest later

[jackthehat]

< i've been taught about many times, over many years, in history and science, so there names and what they did are embeded in my memory, >

A piece of advice - Try to remember that Mollykins is only 16..........

[mollykins]

GCSE history for me will be the american west, 1840s to 1890s and medicine and health through time, of which we have to remember these people, when they were around roughly and what they did.

Also, this is the last year for this syllabus so the questions on paper two (which we've been told is about rennaissance to modern medicine) will either be really obscure or on women most probably as they are runnign out of questions to ask, but i can remember florence nightingale and the other women but for paper one which will be i think must be 4 essay (well a page long each) questions to answer, two will be american west and two will be medicine.

[mollykins]

mneumonics, thats what i meant, knew that it had an awkward silent letter at the begining.

[cazzz1975]

lol..total bull

[mollykins]

What is? The teacher wouldn't lie to us, he's been teaching at the school since it opened, and is retiring at the end of this year. He knows the syllabus inside out and there isn't much else they can ask questions on other than women in medicine (and the fact we are doing renaissance to modern medicine on the evidence paper helps to narrow it down)

[mollykins]

And he was reading off of the letter sent to him by the exam board telling us what paper 2 was about.

[cazzz1975]

save your fingers molly, I dont buy it :)

[Sqad]

mnemonics.....I found then very helpful, not in remembering doctors names, but in Anatomy where various structures had complicated relations or routes.Unfortunately they were mostly rude and I couldn't possibly give examples here...;-)

Dr's? remember Alexander Fleming, Christiaan Barnard,Alec Jeffreys and me :_)

[mollykins]

Out of those we've only studied fleming but didn't Baranrd perform the first successful very difficult operation or some kind?

[mollykins]

Cazz, he had the letter from the exam board, who write the questions, this si the last lot of questions and so far women have only been on either paper three times in the last god knows how many years.

[DrFilth]

don't forget Dr Crippen all the articles on him may be wrong

http://www.timesonlin...me/article2674601.ece

[Sqad]

Molly ..Google Christiaan Barnard......!

[Sqad]

Dr. Filth....LOL

Also Google Buck Ruxton....!! for an interesting read.

[DrFilth]

sqad ruxton or rogers
http://www.google.co....num=5&ved=0CD8QsAQwBA

[Sqad]

Dr Filth...LOL

[mollykins]

See, the first successful heart transplant, but i doubt he will be questioned about.

Last years people had a really tricky paper two which was also about modern medicine, but about new technologies such as x-rays, antiseptics, aseptics, dna reading and blood transfusions. And we also have modern medicine, of which the only questions left to ask is about women, and the nhs but that's easy, but on paper one, the medicine question can be about anything from the cavemen to the 20th century.