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Medical People

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leonardo davinci   (1452-1519) Studied anatomy by dissecting human corpses  
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william Harvey   (1578-1658) He knew blood flew through the body  
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Gabriele Fallopius   (1523-1562) condoms,named fallopian tubes  
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Bartolommeo Eustachios   (1520-1574) discovered the Eustacian tube in the ear  
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Anton von Leeuwenhoek   (1632-1723) creates microscope, thinks there are living organisms smaller than the eye can see  
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Joseph Priestly   (1732-1804) isolated oxygen by heating mercuiric acid  
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Benjamin Franklin   (1706-1790) Bifocal glasses, developed flexible urinary catheter, believed diseases happened more in rooms without venilation  
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Rene Laennec   (1781-1826) invented stethescope described evolution of Tuberculosis  
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Edward Jenner   (1749-1823) discovered vaccine for smallpox,founder of immunology and pioneer of modern virology  
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Louis Pasteur   (1822-1895) discovered diseases are spread by bacteria,pasteurazation-killing germs by heat, microbes fighting off the called vaccination  
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Joseph Lister   (1827-1912) studied coagulation of blood in injuries, to control bacteria he began to spray carbolic acid on surgical instruments and wounds  
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Ernest VanBergmann   (1836-1907) Asepsis(sterilizing)  
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Ignaz Semmelweis   Handwashing  
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Clara Barton   1864-founded American Red Cross  
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Dorothy Dix   Mental Health crusader  
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Elizabeth Blackwell   First women doctor  
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Florence Nightingale   opened first nursing school, pionner of modern nursing  
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Robert Koch   (1843-1910) 1870 demostrated that Bacillus anthrax spores cause an infection in mice, father of microbiology/ Bacteriology  
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Wilhem Roentgen   (1845-1923) discovered x-rays  
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Paul Enrlich   (1854-1915) contributions to cure of syphilis, immunology, hematology, chemotherapy  
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Sigmund Freud   (1856-1939) revolutionized ideas on how the human mind works  
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Alexander Fleming   (1881-1955) bacteriologist who discovers that mold can kill a germ, Penicillin notatum  
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Gerhard Domagk   Discovered sulfa drugs  
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Jonas Salk   (1914-1995) inactive vaccine against polio  
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Albert Sabin   (1906-1993) "live virus" oral vaccine proved more efficent  
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Watson and Crick   discovered basic building blocks of life, double helix structure is an acid that causes the information to "program" the cells work, grow and determine the differences between individuals (DNA)  
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