Key Individuals

• Vesalius

  • Renaissance
  • Discovered human jaw has one bone
  • Dissected criminals
  • Discovered no blood flow through invisible holes in heart because they don't exist
  • Improved understanding of anatomy
• William Harvey

  • Renaissance
  • Discovered circulation of blood
• Thomas Sydenham

  • Renaissance
  • Observed patients carefully
• Edward Jenner

  • Industrial
  • Created 1st vaccine - smallpox
• John Snow

  • Industrial
  • Discovered cause of cholera
• Louis Pasteur

  • Industrial
  • Made germ theory
• Edwin Chadwick

  • Industrial
  • Published the 1848 public health act