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History projects
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |