People Who Contributed to Medical History – Flashcards
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Hippocrates
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"father of medicine"; created code of conduct for doctors
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
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invented microscope
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Edward Jenner
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developed a vaccination for smallpox in 1796, a discovery that led preventive medicine in public health
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Benjamin Franklin
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invented bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person
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Rene Laennec
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invented the first stethoscope
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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first female physician
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Florence Nightingale
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founder of "modern nursing"
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Louis Pasteur
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germ theory proved microorganisms caused disease; discovered rabies vaccine and that heat could destroy germs- "pasteurization"
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Joseph Lister
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carbolic acid wounds to kill germs, first used antiseptic during surgery
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Clara Barton
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formed American Red Cross
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Robert Koch
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"father of microbiology" developed cultural plates method to identify pathogens, isolated bacterium that caused Turberculosis
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Wilhelm Roentgen
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discovered roentgenograms (x-rays)
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Sigmund Freud
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his studies were the basis for psychology and psychiatry
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Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin
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discovered Polio vaccine
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Francis Crick and James Watson
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described the structure of DNA
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Christian Barnard
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first successful heart transplant surgery in South Africa
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Ben Carson
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separated conjoined Siamese twins
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Sir Alexander Fleming
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discovered Penicillin
