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Edward Jenner
Smallpox vaccine -
James Simpson
Discovered a highly effective anesthetic via experimentation -
Louis Pasteur
Germ Theory -
Joseph Lister
Antiseptic surgery using carbolic spray -
Robert Koch
Tuberculosis germ identified -
John Snow
Cholera is water-borne. -
Paul Ehrlich
Salvarsan 606 magic bullet -
Alexander Flemming
The properties of penicillin -
Florence Nightingale
Improved conditions in hospitals, training of nurses and the improvement of the care of patients. -
May & Baker Company
M&B 693 -
Ernst Chain and Howard Florey
1938-41/44 Penicillin as an antibiotic