People

• Versalius published his book, 'the fabric of the human body' in 1543.
• Galen had dissected animals but not humans so there were many errors in his work.
• Harvey (17th century) disproved Galen's idea that blood was produced from the liver.

  He proved that the blood circulated through the body.
• The Printing press made it so surgeon's works could be spread to other surgeons.
• Edward Jenner(18th century) created the first vaccine, for smallpox.
• John snow (19th century) proved that cholera was water based and not through miasma. He also created the chlorophyll inhaler.
• Louis Pasteur (19th century) created germ theory, and proved germs caused decay instead of chemicals.
• Robert Koch(19th century) applied Pasteur's Germ theory to human diseases. He proved that specific bacteria were responsible for a specific disease from experimenting on animals.
• Paul Ehrlich (19th century) discovered magic bullets that would stain and kill a specific type of bacteria.
• Alexander Fleming(19th century) left petri dishes open. Mould grew on one and he noticed germs near the mould had been killed.
• Florey and Chain (19th century) tested on a human with penicillin vaccine, they then made the government mass produce it in WW2.