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.

[Sqad]

BloodTransfusions.....http://nobelprize.org/n
obel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1930/landstein
er-bio.html

[jackthehat]

Incidentally, which syllabus are you following, mollykins ?

[mollykins]

my exam timetable says edexcel/gcse for the exam board.

So has noone got any good suggestions for rememebring these people?

[Bobbisox]

Good Morning all, Molly that's very good stuff in there for you age and a good command of the language used, I may be wrong but why do I get the feeling a lot of it is copied and pasted from some other forum?
As I only know my GP, Sqad, Christian Barnard doing the first heart transplant in SA in 1968,Dr Filth, Dr Barnado and maybe a few others, I am not equipped to join in this great debate, in fact I feel rather dim when I read you header Molly x

[mollykins]

I copied that out of my book and added a few bits of what i use to remember such as galen-the-Greek. But i can't rememebr it, i need mneumonics and other rhymes or alliteration.

[mollykins]

Its not a debate, i'm asking for help, for ways to rememeber these people.

[Sqad]

in fact I feel rather dim when I read you header Molly x

That is because you are bobbi........but you are not alone....;-)

[Sqad]

Molly....as I have said, there are NO mnemonics for remembering those names and dates.

[mollykins]

I'm not bobbi, i don't come from the north like she does.

Why do you feel dim????? i'm confused, it doesn't matter if you lot don't know all of these people or what they did, i've given information and using it, want to see if anyone can think of ways of rememebring it.

[mollykins]

People might come up with rhymes or alliteration phrases to remember them then.

[DrFilth]

did they teach you about leeches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez3BFGXR02A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez3BFGXR02A

[Bobbisox]

Report This(09:21 on Sun 23/May/10)
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I'm not bobbi, i don't come from the north like she does.


whats this all about Molly..lol

[mollykins]

squad accused us of being the same person.

[Bobbisox]

No he didn't Molly, take another look..
Bobbi

[mollykins]

ohh, i missunderstood waht squad was saying,

Mark as Best AnswerReport This(09:18 on Sun 23/May/10)
in fact I feel rather dim when I read you header Molly x

That is because you are bobbi........but you are not alone....;-)

[Bobbisox]

I said I was a bit dim and he has responded by saying back to me
"That's because you are Bobbi"...dim


omg!

[mollykins]

sorry, its still early in the morning, most people my age aren't even awake at this time of the morning at the weekend.

[Bobbisox]

np..lol

[jackthehat]

Quite true !
So we have so much more of the day in which to enjoy 'The world according to Molly'.........

Deep Joy ! :o(

[mollykins]

not really, i'm going to the beach in a bit, when my parents can be bothered to get up that is. Can you believe a teenager gets up earlier than her parents at the weekends?????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!