Wrote Airs, Water and Places to propose that illness could be attributed to nutrition, mode of life and the environment of the patient.
Who was Hippocrates
Ever heard of the Hippocratic Oath?
200
Designed experiments that demonstrated that the bacteria Bacillus Anthracs was the cause of anthrax. Repeated experiment method to identify bacteria for TB and cholera. Known as the father of modern bacteriology.
Who was Robert Koch
300
Through experimentation and luck this chemist discovered the antiseptic lysozme and penicillin
Who was Sir Alexander Fleming
400
English physician who discovered, through the cowpox virus, a vaccine against the deadly smallpox disease
Who was Edward Jenner
500
Doctor, poet and astronomer (1478-1553) proposed revolutionary theory that infectious diseases were transmitted between people by minute particles before use of microscope.