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Health Care history
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hippocrates | father of modern medicine |
| Aristotle | first to study anatomy |
| Claudius Galen | discovered blood is carried through the arteries |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | first to use dissection |
| Ambroise Pare | the father of modern surgery |
| William Harvey | discovered the circulation of blood |
| Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek | invented a microscope |
| Joseph Priestley | found you element oxygen |
| Benjamin Franklin | invented the bifocals |
| Edward Jenner | created the vaccination for smallpox |
| Rene Laennec | invented the stethoscope |
| Philippe Pinel | discovered humane treatment |
| Semmelweis | discovered handwashing |
| William Morton | he discovered ether amnesia |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | first female physician |
| Florence Nightingale | founder of modern nursing |
| Joseph Lister | antispetic |
| Paul Ehrlich | cure for syphilis |
| Clara Barton | started american red cross |
| Robert Koch | father of microbiology |
| Louis Pasteur | pasteurization |
| Wilhelm Rontgen | invented the x ray |
| Sigmund Freud | father of psychoanalysis |
| Alexander Flemming | discovered pincillian |
| Jonas Salk | polio vaccine |