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Med. Discoveries
Important people in the Medical Field and their contributions.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Clara Barton | The founder of the American Red Cross. |
| Florence Nightingale | Known as the founder of modern nursing |
| Jonas Salk | Created the polio vaccine |
| Hippocrates | The "Father of Medicine"; organized the method of observing the human body |
| Ignaz Semmelweis | Discovered that child-birth fever and other diseases were caused by doctors not washing their hands |
| William Harvey | Knew that blood flew in our bodies and correctly explained it |
| James Lind | Discovered that sailors got Scurvy due to lack of Vitamin C |
| Joseph Lister | Started to use disinfectants during surgeries to control the amount of bacteria |
| Edward Jenner | Discovered the smallpox vaccine |
| Alexander Fleming | Discovered penicillin |
| The Romans | Began public health and sanitation systems |
| Wilhelm Roentgen | Discovered X-rays |
| Louis Pasteur | Discovered that the heating of germs killed them; Came up with the germ theory; Credited with finding a vaccine for rabies |
| Benjamin Franklin | Invented the bifocal glasses |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Dissected human bodies in order to study the anatomy and draw it |
| Dorthea Dix | The crusader for Mental Health |
| The Chinese | Used acupuncture for the relieving of pain and congestion |
| Gerhard Domagk | Discovered the Sulfa drugs |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | Was the first female physician in the U.S. |
| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson | Was the first female physician in Great Britain. |
| Anton von Leeuwenhoek | Created the microscope; believed that there were organisms smaller |
| Rene Laennec | Invented the stethoscope; Studied Tuberculosis |
| Sigmund Freud | Changed our ideas on how the human mind functions |
| Robert Koch | Developed the culture plate method in order to identify harmful pathogens |
| Paul Enrlich | Contributed to the cure of chemotherapy |
| Joseph Priestly | Was able to isolate oxygen |
| Rhazes | Began the use of animal gut for suture material |
| Gabriel Fahrenheit | Created the first mercury thermometer |
| Egyptians | Are the earliest people known to maintain accurate health records |
| Marie Curie | Discovered polonium and radium |
| Gregory Mendel | Established the patterns of heredity |
| Bartolommeo Eustachios | Discovered the human ear's Eustachian tube |
| James Watson and Francis Crick | Discovered the basic building blocks of life; Discovered DNA |
| Andreas Vesalius | Dissected a human body; wrote a book containing the first accurate description of the human body and its anatomy |
| Joseph Murray | Performed first successful kidney transplant |
| Karl Lansteiner | Discovered that a person can survive a blood transfusion if the donor had the same blood type; Made 4 blood type groups: A, B, O, and AB |
| Luk Montagnier and Robert Gallo | Discovered that HIV causes AIDS |
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