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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, Gloucestershire
Born Died: May 17, 1749 – January 26, 1823 -
Humphry Davy
Where from: Penzance
Born Died: December 17, 1778 - May 29, 1829
Alkali and alkaline metals -
Rene Laennec
Where from: Quimper, France
:Born Died: Born 17 February 1781 - 13 August 1826
Contributions to medical field during the Industrial Revolution: Invented the Stethoscope -
James Simpson
Bathgate West Lothian
Born 7 June 1811 Died 6 May 1870
Founded Chloroform -
Florence Nightingale
Florence Grand Duchy of Tuscany
May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910
Pioneering Modern Nursing -
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; kingdom of hanover
Born December 11, 1843 and died May 27, 1910
Founded modern bacteriology -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Where from: Remscheid
March 27, 1845 - February 10, 1923
invented x-rays
