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History Of Medicine
study guide for the history of medicine Kassandra Carrillo 0333893
Term | Definition |
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1. Marie Curie | Isolated radium in 1910 |
2. Gregory Mendel | Established patterns of heredity |
3. Edward Jenner | Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796 |
4. Romans | Began public health and sanitation systems |
5. William Roentgen | Discovered X-Rays in 1895 |
6. Hippocrates | The father of medicine |
7. Sir Alexander Flemming | Discovered penicillin in 1928 |
8. Leonardo Da Vinci | Artist who used dissection to draw the human body |
9. Dark Ages | Emphasis was placed on saving th soul and study of medicine was prohibited |
10. Clara Barton | Founded the American Red Cross in 1881 |
11. Egyptians | Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records |
12. Louis Pasteur | Began pasteurizing mil to kill bacteria |
13. Chinese | Used acupuncture |
14. Robert Koch | Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens |
15. Florence Nightingale | Founder of modern nursing |
16. Joseph Lister | Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery |
17. Gabriel Fahrenheit | Created the first mercury thermometer |
18. Jonas Salk | Developed polio vaccine in 1952 |
19. Rhazes | An ARab physician who began the use if animal gut for suture material. |
20. Gregory Mendel | Established patterns of heredity |