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206 historic people
test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| African-American surgical technician who contributed to the Blalock-Taussig procedure- Cyanosis/Blue baby syndrome | Vivien Thomas |
| Presented rules of health to the Jews around 1205 b.c., making him the first advocate of preventive medicine and the First public health officer. | Moses |
| Father of medicine, most famous of the ancient Greek physicians, best remembered for an oath that has been taken by many physicians for more than 2,000 years | Hippocrates |
| 162 AD "Prince of Physicians"; medical ethics *practice for the love of medicine, not money* | Galen |
| Belgian Anatomist *"Father of Modern Anatomy" | Vesalius |
| heart acts as a muscular pump | Harvey |
| was the first to observe bacteria and protozoa through a lens; Fabric maker; grinded lenses | Leeuwenhoek |
| Founder of scientific surgery; army surgeon- gunshot wounds/tissue transfer; artificial feeding tube; STDs | Hunter |
| The first histologist- pulmonary & capillary discovery; pioneered the use of a microscope (plants/animals | Malpighi |
| Observed that those who had contracted cowpox never contracted smallpox; treated a dairymaid; vaccination came for the word cow | Jenner |
| Developed the use of percussion | Auenbrugger |
| Developed the stethoscope; treatise- diseases of the chest | Laennec |
| Savior of Mothers; Hand washing; students had to wash hands after contact | Semmelweis |
| Pathfinders in Medicine; scientists who advocated antisepsis | Lister and Pasteur |
| Father of bacteriology; fermentation of wine; silkworm; bacteria is everywhere-contagious diseases; anthrax | Pasteur |
| Reasoned that MOs are the cause of infection; putrefaction; antiseptic (carbolic acid for sterilization) | Lister |
| Bacteriologist who discovered causative agents in diseases; Cholera; failed to find a cure for TB but isolated TB which aided in its use as a diagnostic aid in eradicating it | Koch -- Nobel Prize- 1905 |
| Magic bullet/Formula 606 to fight Syphilis; Immunology, chemotherapy, bacteriology; inject chemicals-fight MOs; typhiod fever* | Ehrlich -- Nobel Prize- 1908 |
| Known for Phagocytosis/immunology theory | Metchnikoff -- shared Nobel Prize w/ Ehrlich- 1908 |
| Ether- anesthetic agent | WIlliamson-Long |
| Nitrous oxide & ether- dental anesthetics | Wells & Morton |
| Discovered radium | Marie and Pierre Curry -- Nobel Prize- 1902 |
| X-Rays | Roentgen -- Nobel Prize- 1901 |
| In 1881 organized a committee in Washington- the American Red Cross; Philanthropist during Civil War (Bureau of Records); Served as first president of ARC | Clara Barton |
| Became the American leader of the birth control movement; indicted for The Woman Rebel" Magazine | Margret Sanger |
| Wrote about death and dying | Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
| Two scientists that almost eradicated Polio - created Polio vaccines | Salk and Sabin |
| HIV | David Ho, Eve Slater, Don Francis, Anthony Fauci |
| Surgeon General of US; proponent of tobacco awareness, insisting that advertisements must be less enticing to the public | Koop |
| Medicare | Wald |
| First woman to become a Medical Doctor | Elizabeth Blackwell |
| Spoke of our *ability of discovery and innovation* of medicine; *"If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants"* | Isaac Newton |
| *Yellow Fever* (caused by *mosquitos*) | Walter Reed |
| Discovered *penicillin in 1928* | Fleming |
| Known for the procedure to save *blue babies* | Taussig-Blalock |
| *First woman and Hispanic* to be honored with the name of *Surgeon General*; *MADD & UNICEF* transplant fund | Novello |
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