Medicine Through Time

By Quacks

  • 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