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History of medicine
Term | Definition |
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Clara Barton | Founded the American Red Cross in 1881 |
Chinese | Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion |
Marie Curie | Isolated radium in 1910 |
Leonardo de Vinci | Artist who used dissection to draw the human body |
Dark Ages | Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited |
Egyptians | Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records |
Gabriel Fahrenhiet | Created the first mercury thermometer |
Sir Alexander Flaming | Discovered penicillin in 1928 |
William Harvey | Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart |
Hippocrates | The father of medicine |
Edward Jenner | Developed the vaccine for smallpox in 1796 |
Robert Koch | Developed the culture plate method to identify pathegons |
Joseph Lister | Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery |
Gregory Mendel | Established the patterns of heredity |
Florence Nightingale | Founder of Modern Nursing |
Louis Pasteur | Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria |
Rhazes | An Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material |
William Roentgen | Discovered X-rays in 1895 |
Romans | Began public health and sanitation systems |
Jonas Salk | Developed the polio vaccine in 1952 |
Andreas Vesalius | Author of must influential book on human anatomy |