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Briefly describe the contributions made by Louis Pasture, Florence Nightingale and James Simpson to medical science and then explain which of these three people you think had the greatest influence on Lister.
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Task 2: Joseph Lister believed that germs caused infection. Briefly describe the contributions made by Louis Pasture, Florence Nightingale and James Simpson to medical science and then explain which of these three people you think had the greatest influence on Lister. James young who was professor of midwifery at Edinburgh University, experimented on himself and his assistants to find a more effective anaesthetic than ether which had been developed in the USA but had been found to cause a nasty cough to patients. In 1847 he tested chloroform and found it to be a much less potent substance than ether. He reported his discoveries, but without a proper system of regulation in place, the substance was misused and caused the death of a 15-year-old girl by another doctor. The medical profession became less sceptical however, when in 1853 Queen Victoria was successfully anaesthetised with chloroform during the birth of her ninth...
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