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.

[kawakiri]

No mnemonics though. Media URL: http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/gcsehistoryrevision_medicinethroughtime.htm
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[Bobbisox]

I am off into the garden
bye ♥

[jackthehat]

Do you really believe otherwise ?
Or are you just adopting a pose, for effect ?

[DrFilth]

just to prove leeches work, take a look at the bottom of the page from my old medical book

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[dothawkes31]

If you are doing the history yot say, what have you learnt about ethnicicity in the American west in the 1880s?

[mollykins]

We kind of have done a bit about ethnicity dot, in reality msot cowboys were black or mexican not the whites that you predominatly see in the movies. Plus people from the same parts of europe went to the same parts of america thats why you get people with german names in places such as california and texas.

I can't help it if i'm clever but have a lot to moan about, i may moan but at least i don't attack other users.

[sophie_1003]

know this was a while a go now but felt I had to say something-- cazz, why do you doubt molly? I did GCSE history and we learnt about the history of medicine!