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John Hunter
Where from: East Kilbride
Born Died: February 13, 1728 - October 16, 1793
Contributions to medical field during the Industrial Revolution:
- good work on gunshot wounds
- some work on venereal diseases -
Edward Jenner
Where from: Berkeley
Born Died: May 17, 1749 - January 26, 1823
Contributions to medical field during the Industrial Revolution:
- came up with a vaccine to smallpox. -
Humphry Davy
Where from: Penzance
Born Died: December 17, 1778 - May 29, 1829
Contributions to medical field during the Industrial Revolution:
- Anaesthesia -
Rene Laennec
Where from: Quimper
Born Died: February 17, 1781 - August 13, 1826
Contributions to medical field during the Industrial Revolution:
- he invented the stethoscope -
James Simpson
Where from: Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
Born Died: June 7, 1811 - May 6 1870
Contributions to medical field during the Industrial Revolution:
- discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform -
Florence Nightingale
Where from: Florence
Born Died: May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910
Contributions to medical field during the Industrial Revolution:
- founded modern nursing
- helped improve the care provided by hospitals -
Louis Pasteur
Where from: Dole
Born and Died: December 27, 1822 - September 28, 1895
Contributions to medical field during the Industrial Revolution:
- made changes in hospital/medical practices to minimize the spread of disease by germ.
- introduced the medical field to the concept of viruses -
Joseph Lister
Where from: West Ham
Born and Died: April 5, 1827 - February 10, 1912
Contributions to medical field during the Industrial Revolution:
- introduced the concept of micro-organisms causing infections
- sterilizing in surgery came from many of his ideas. -
Robert Koch
Where from: Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Born Died: December 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910
Contributions to medical field during the Industrial Revolution:
- research on Anthrax
- research on cholera
- research on tuberculosis -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Where from: Remscheid
Born Died: March 27, 1845 - February 10, 1923
Contributions to medical field during the Industrial Revolution:
- X-rays
