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History projects
Term | Definition |
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Hippocrates | father of modern medicine |
Aristotle | Founder of the anatomy |
Claudius Galen | Circulation of the arteries |
William Harvey | Blood circulation through the heart |
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek | 1st to discover bacteriafrom the microscope |
Joseph Priestly | discovered oxygen |
Benjamin Franklin | Made bifocals |
Edward Jenner | creator of the vaccine for small box |
Rene Lannaec | invented the stethoscope |
Dr. Philippe Pinel | began human treatment for those with mental illness |
Leonardo Da Vinci | First to use dissection |
Ambrose Pare | father of modern surgery |
Ignaz Semmelweis | Came up with handwashing |
William Morton | 1st succesful anathesic |
Elizabeth Blackwell | 1st female physican in the United States. |
Florence Nightingale | founder of modern nursing |
Joseph Lister | first to use antiseptics/antiobiotics |
Paul Elrich | discovered the first effective treatment for syphillis |
Clara Barton | Founder of the red cross association |
Robert Koch | father of the microbiology |
Emile Roux | discovered a vaccine for diptheria |
louis Pauteur | created pasteurization process |
Dimitry Losifovich Ivanovsky | first to discover viruses. |
Wilhelm Concrad Roentgen | discovered the X-Ray |
Almorth Wright | curied typhoid fever |
Sigmand Freud | father of psychiatry |
Alexander Flemming | discovered penicilin |
Jonas Salk | Created the injectable polio vaccine |
Alfred Sabin | created an oral polio vaccine |
James Lind | prescribed lime juice to prevent scurvy. |