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John Hunter
Where are they from Scotland
When did they live - Born 1728 and Died 1793
Contribution(s) to medical field during the Industrial Revolution Wrote many books about teeth which increased the knowledge about teeth. -
Humphry Davy
Where are they from Britain
When did they live - Born and Died December 17, 1778 - May 29, 1829
Contribution(s) to medical field during the Industrial Revolution
Must include photo of each person. He study gasses during his career and came up with the new field of electrochemistry.
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Rene Laenne
Where are they from France
When did they live - Born and Died Feb. 17, 1781 - Aug 13, 1826
Contribution(s) to medical field during the Industrial Revolution Invented the stethoscope in 1816 when he was unable to feel a patient’s heratbeat throght his hand or by pressing his ear agianst the chest due to the patients “great degree of fatness”. -
James Simpson
Where are they from Scotland
When did they live - Born and Died June 7th 1811 - May 6 1870
Contribution(s) to medical field during the Industrial Revolution Was the first doctor to use chloroform on patients and as anesthetic -
Florence Nightingale
Where are they from Florence Italy
When did they live - Born and Died May 12, 1820 August 13, 1910
Contribution(s) to medical field during the Industrial Revolution She was a nurse and her efforts led her to establish the first scientifically based nursing school. -
Louis Pasture
Where are they from - Jura France
When did they live - Born and Died December 28, 1822 - September 28, 1895
Contribution(s) to medical field during the Industrial Revolution
Must include photo of each person. He worked on finding solutions to the problems with the manufacture of alcoholic drinks. He also helped save the silk industry by proving that microbes were attacking healthy silkworm eggs, causing the disease and that the disease would be eliminated if the microbes were elim -
Joseph Lister
Where are they from Essex, Lister
When did they live - Born - Died (April 5, 1827 - February 10, 1912 1912)
Contribution(s) to medical field during the Industrial Revolution Joseph Lister is the surgeon who introduced new principles of cleanliness which transformed surgical practices. -
Robert Koch
Where are they from Germany
When did they live - Born and Died December 11, 1843 - May 27 1910
Contribution(s) to medical field during the Industrial Revolution Founder of Modern Biology -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Where are they from Lennep in Rhenish Prussia
When did they live - Born and Died March 27, 1845 - February 10, 1923
Contribution(s) to medical field during the Industrial Revolution His greatest discovery was on November 8th 1895 when he discovered x-rays. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/wilhelm_roentgen.htm
