Medieval Examples
Joseph Bazalgette – Developed
Avicenna – He was an Islamic
doctor. He wrote the Canon of
Medicine.
Hippocrates and Galen – Four
Humours Theory and Theory of
Opposites.
Renaissance Example
The printing press which circulated
the ideas Vesalius.
The printing press which circulated
the ideas Vesalius.
Vesalius – Published a book called
Fabric of the Human Body. He
challenged Galen’s ideas.
Harvey – Developed theory of
circulation of blood around the
body.
19th Century Modern Examples
the London Sewage system in
1865.
John Snow – A doctor in 1854 William Beveridge – He wrote
who connected outbreaks of the Beveridge Report which
cholera to a pump.
would later help create the NHS.
Queen Victoria – she used
chloroform during child birth.