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History of healthcar
People
Term | Definition |
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Hippocrates | father of modern medicine |
Aristotle | first to study anatomy |
Galen | discovered arteries carry the blood |
Leonardo da Vinci | first to use dissection |
Ambrosie Pare | father of modern surgery |
William Harvey | discovered blood circulates around the body |
Anton van leeuwenhoek | discovered bacteria with a microscope |
Joeseph Priestley | discovered oxygen |
Benjamin Franklin | invented bifolcles |
Edward Jenner | invented the vaccine for smallpox |
Rene Laenec | discovered the stethoscope |
Philippe Pinel | moral treatment for mental health |
Ignaz Semmelweis | discovered handwashing |
William Morton | discovered anaesthesia |
Elizabeth Blackwell | first female physician |
Florence Nightingale | founder of modern nursing |
Joeseph Lister | first to use antisepsis during surgery |
Paul Ehrlich | found first treatment for syphillis |
Clara Barton | founder of American Red Cross |
Robert Koch | father of microbiology |
Louis Pasteur | germ theory- pasteurization |
Pierre Paul Emile Roux | instrumental helping with vaccines |
Sigmund Freud | father of psychiatry |
Alexander Fleming | first to discover penicillin |
Jonas Salk | developed first vaccine for polio |
Albert Sabin | did live and oral vaccine for polio |
Almoth Wright | vaccine against typhoid |