Wilhelm Roentgen
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Wilhelm Roentgen or Röntgen made medical history by discovering what are now called x-rays. The discovery earned Röntgen much fame and it resulted in him being award a Nobel Prize. Wilhelm Röntgen was born on March 27th 1845. He was born at Lennep in Rhenish Prussia. However when
Marie Curie
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Marie Curie is one of the major figures in the history of medicine. Curie was a physicist and chemist who found international fame for her work on radioactivity. Such was the importance of her work, Marie Curie was the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes. However, her
Robert Koch
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Robert Koch was born in 1843. Koch worked on anthrax and tuberculosis (TB) and he further developed the work of Louis Pasteur. Koch’s fame, alongside that of Alexander Fleming, Edward Jenner, Joseph Lister and Pasteur himself, is firmly cemented in medical history. Koch came from a poor mining family
Louis Pasteur
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Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 in Dole, France. Louis Pasteur’s name is forever cemented in the history of medicine. He, along with Alexander Fleming, Edward Jenner, Robert Koch and Joseph Lister, is of great importance when studying medical history. Pasteur’s discovery – that of germs – may seem
Ignaz Semmelweis
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Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian obstetrician who disproved the belief that post-operations deaths were caused by ‘poison air’ in a hospital ward. The work done by Semmelweis all but removed puerperal fever from the maternity units he worked in. His colleagues and superiors derided his work while he was
Edward Jenner
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Edward Jenner is alongside the likes of Joseph Lister, Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur in medical history. Edward Jenner was born in 1749 and died in 1823. Edward Jenner’s great gift to the world was his vaccination for smallpox. This disease was greatly feared at the time as it
Franz Mesmer
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Historians view Franz Mesmer as the father of alternate medicine. Mesmer give his name to mesmerism, seen as an alternate approach to conventional medical practice. Franz Mesmer was born in 1734 in a village near Lake Constance. He was educated in Vienna where he qualified in medicine. While
Joseph Lister
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Joseph Lister is alongside the likes Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Alexander Fleming and Edward Jenner in the work he did to further medical knowledge. Joseph Lister did not discover a new drug but he did make the like between lack of cleanliness in hospitals and deaths after operations. For
William Harvey
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William Harvey made the momentous medical discovery that the flow of blood must be continuous and that its flow must be in one direction only. This discovery sealed his place in the history of medicine. William Harvey was born in 1578 in Folkestone, Kent. Harvey studied at Caius
Giovanni Morgagni
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Many historians see Giovanni Battista Morgagni as the father of pathology. In 1761 Morgagni wrote ‘De Sedibus et Causis Morborum’ – ‘On the Sites and Causes of Diseases’. The work was published in Italy and it is seen as starting the foundations that resulted in the clinical study of