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History of medicine
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Clara Barton | Founded the American Red Cross in 1881 |
| Chinese | Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion |
| Marie Curie | Isolated radium in 1910 |
| Leonardo de Vinci | Artist who used dissection to draw the human body |
| Dark Ages | Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited |
| Egyptians | Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records |
| Gabriel Fahrenhiet | Created the first mercury thermometer |
| Sir Alexander Flaming | Discovered penicillin in 1928 |
| William Harvey | Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart |
| Hippocrates | The father of medicine |
| Edward Jenner | Developed the vaccine for smallpox in 1796 |
| Robert Koch | Developed the culture plate method to identify pathegons |
| Joseph Lister | Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery |
| Gregory Mendel | Established the patterns of heredity |
| Florence Nightingale | Founder of Modern Nursing |
| Louis Pasteur | Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria |
| Rhazes | An Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material |
| William Roentgen | Discovered X-rays in 1895 |
| Romans | Began public health and sanitation systems |
| Jonas Salk | Developed the polio vaccine in 1952 |
| Andreas Vesalius | Author of must influential book on human anatomy |