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history of medicine

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Andres Vesalius   dissected bodies secretly; published De Humani Corporis Fabrica in 1538  
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William Harvey   discovered blood circulation  
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Karl Landsteiner   came up with the 4 blood types  
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Horace Wells, William Morton, Crawford Long   found an effective anesthetic; first public use of anesthesia was on October 16, 1846  
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Wilhelm Roentgen   discovered x-rays  
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Ignaz Semmelweis   pioneer of antiseptic procedures; helped drop the rates of child birth fever  
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Louis Pasteur   discovered germs; came up with germ theory; began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria  
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Edward Jenner   came up with the small pox vaccine  
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Jonas Salk   vaccine against polio  
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James Lind   discovered that citrus fruits protected sailors from scurvy  
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Frederick Gowland Hopkins   discovered that our bodies need specific nutrients/vitamins to survive  
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Alexander Flemming   discovered penicillin  
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Howard Florey, Erns Chain   picked up Flemming's work and successfully extracted penicillin and created the world's first antibiotic  
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Bernard Domagk   chemo-therapeutic drugs; sulfa drug  
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting, Charles Best, John James, Rickard Macleod   discovered insulin as a treatment for diabetes  
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Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus   discovered tumor/cancer causing genes; tested it on chickens  
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Luk Montagnier, Robert Galio   discovered/identified HIV/AIDS (retro virus); DNA of the virus becomes part of us  
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Joseph Murray   performed the first successful kidney transplant in 1954  
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Marie Curie   isolated radium in 1910  
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Gregory Mendel   established the patterns of heredity  
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Romans   began public health and sanitation systems  
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Hippocrates   father of medicine  
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Leonardo DaVinci, Michaelangelo   used dissection to draw the human body  
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Dark Ages   period of time in which emphasis was placed on saving the soul and the study of medicine was prohibited  
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Clara Barton   founded the American Red Cross in 1881  
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Egyptians   earliest people known to maintain health records  
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Chinese   used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion  
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Robert Koch   developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens  
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Florence Nightingale   founder of modern nursing  
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Joseph Lister   began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery  
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Gabriel Fahrenheit   created the first mercury thermometer  
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Rhazes   an Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material  
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what ancient people thought was the cause of disease   punishment from the gods; demons and evil spirits  
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Hippocrates stressed these 4 things to help the body heal itself   good dieting, fresh air, exercise, and cleanliness  
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Rod of Asclepius   Greek symbol associated with medicine and healing, founded in ancient Greece; staff entwined by a snake  
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main method to treat disease in the Dark Ages   prayer; divine intervention  
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Shortened the lifespan of people in the Middle Ages   smallpox, dysentery, typhus, bubonic plague  
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Used as medications in the 17th century   plants and herbs  
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Elizabeth Blackwell   first female physician/doctor in the U.S.  
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Gabriel Fallopius   described the tympanic membrane in the ear and the fallopian tubes in females  
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Bartolomeo Eustachio   described the tube that connects the ears and the throat  
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek   invented the microscope in 1666  
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Rene Laenec   invented the stethoscope in 1819; father of pulmonary diseases  
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Francis Crick and James Watson   discovered the structure of DNA  
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Elizabeth Garret Anderson   first female physician in Britain  
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First open heart surgery   1950s  
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