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History of healthcar
People
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hippocrates | father of modern medicine |
| Aristotle | first to study anatomy |
| Galen | discovered arteries carry the blood |
| Leonardo da Vinci | first to use dissection |
| Ambrosie Pare | father of modern surgery |
| William Harvey | discovered blood circulates around the body |
| Anton van leeuwenhoek | discovered bacteria with a microscope |
| Joeseph Priestley | discovered oxygen |
| Benjamin Franklin | invented bifolcles |
| Edward Jenner | invented the vaccine for smallpox |
| Rene Laenec | discovered the stethoscope |
| Philippe Pinel | moral treatment for mental health |
| Ignaz Semmelweis | discovered handwashing |
| William Morton | discovered anaesthesia |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | first female physician |
| Florence Nightingale | founder of modern nursing |
| Joeseph Lister | first to use antisepsis during surgery |
| Paul Ehrlich | found first treatment for syphillis |
| Clara Barton | founder of American Red Cross |
| Robert Koch | father of microbiology |
| Louis Pasteur | germ theory- pasteurization |
| Pierre Paul Emile Roux | instrumental helping with vaccines |
| Sigmund Freud | father of psychiatry |
| Alexander Fleming | first to discover penicillin |
| Jonas Salk | developed first vaccine for polio |
| Albert Sabin | did live and oral vaccine for polio |
| Almoth Wright | vaccine against typhoid |