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People in medical hi
Term | Definition |
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Hippocrates | Father of modern medicine |
Aristotle | First to study anatomy |
Claudius Galen | First to prove arteries carry blood |
Leonardo de Vinci | First to use dissection |
William Harvey | First to discover blood circulation |
Anton van Leeuwenhoek | Father of Microbiology |
Joseph Priestly | Discovered oxygen |
Ben Franklin | Created bifocals |
Edward Jenner | Vaccine for smallpox |
Ambrose Pare | father of modern surgery |
Rene Laennec | stethoscope |
Philippe Pinal | awareness to mental health |
Ignaz Semmelweis | hand washing |
William Morten | anesthesia |
Elizabeth Blackwell | first female physition |
Florence Nightingale | modern nursing |
Joseph Lister | antiseptic |
Paul Ehrlich | treatment of syphilis |
Clara Barton | American Red Cross |
Robert Roch | microbiology |
Louis Pasteur | pasteurization |
Emile Roux | bacteriologist |
Wilhelm Roentgen | X-Rays |
Alexander Fleming | penicillin |
Sigmund Freud | Father of psychology |
Jonas Salk | Polio Vaccine |
Alfred Sabin | oral polio vaccine |