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History of Medicine
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Andreas Vesalius. | Study of human anatomy through dissection. Founder of modern Anatomy. |
| William Harvey. | Described blood circulation. |
| Jonas Salk. | Polio vaccine. |
| Alexander Flemming. | Discovered penicillin. |
| The rebirth of Science & Medicine. | Renaissance. |
| The Father of Medicine. | Hippocrates. |
| Christian Barnard. | Performed the first successful heart transplant. |
| Perfected penicillin. | Howard Florey & Erns Chain. |
| Wilhelm Roentgen. | Discovered X-rays. |
| "Father of Microbiology" | Louis Pasteur. |
| Sir Joseph Lister. | Listerine. Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery. |
| Organ Transplantation. | Joseph Murray. |
| Ignaz Semmelweis. | Hand washing policy. |
| Edward Jenner. | Smallpox vaccine. |
| Louis Pasteur. | Germ theory, rabies vaccine & Pasteurization. |
| Karl Landsteiner. | Safe blood transfusion and discovered the different blood types. |
| Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins. | vitamins, nutrition & diet. |
| Sulfa Drugs. | Gerhard Domagk. |
| Discovered that cancer causing cells are already on the gene of humans. | Micheal Bishop & Harold Varmus. |
| Robert Gallo. | Discovered HIV causes AIDS. |
| They all contributed to anesthesia. | Dr. Horace Wells, William Morton, and Crawford Long. |
| Leonardo da Vinci. | Used dissection to draw the human body. |
| Earliest people to maintain accurate health records. | Egyptians. |
| Founder of modern nursing. | Florence Nightingale. |
| Developed first public system. | Romans. |
| Established patterns of heredity. | Gregory Mendel. |
| Ven Carson. | Separated the Simanse twins. |
| Invented the stethoscope. | René Laennec. |
| Created the fist mercury thermometer. | Gabriel Fahrenheit. |
| Clara Barton. | Developed first bureau of records to search for missing men in battle. Founded the American Red Cross in 1881. |
| Used acupuncture to relive pain and congestion. | Chinese. |
| Rhazes. | Arab physician who began using animal gut for suture material. |
| James Lind. | Scurvy, associated with vitamin C. |
| Sir Frederic Grant Banting, Charles Best, John James Rickard Macleod. | Discovered and purified insulin creating an effective treatment for diabetes. |
| Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited. | Dark Ages. |
| Luk Montagnier. | Discovered AIDS virus. |
| Robert Koch. | Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens. Bacterium Tuberculosis. |
| Isolated Radium in 1910. | Marie Curie. |
| Machine invented 20th century allows people with a failed organ to survive by removing waste from blood. | Kidney Dialysis Machine. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Invented Bifocals(glasses). |
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