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History of Medicine
09/16/19 history of medicine quiz study stack
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Carla Barton | Founded the American Red Cross in 1881 |
| Chinese | Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion |
| Marie Curie | Isolated radium in 1910 |
| Leonardo da 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 |
| Dorothea Dix | Appointed as Superintendent of Female Nurses of the Army in 1861 |
| Egyptians | Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records |
| Gabriel Fahrenheit | Created the first mercury thermometer |
| Sir Alexander Fleming | Discovered Penicillin in 1928 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Invented bifocal glasses |
| Sigmund Freud | Studies formed the basis for psychology and psychiatry flu |
| William Harvey | Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart |
| Hippocrates | Father of Medicine |
| Edward Jenner | Created vaccine for smallpox in 1796 |
| Robert Koch | Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens |
| 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 polio vaccine in 1952 |
| Andreas Vesalius | Dissected human bodies and wrote Human Anatomy book in 1500's |
| Karl Landsteiner | Discovered different blood types and named them |
| Dr. Horace Wells, William Morton, and Crawford Long | Invented first form of anesthesia and production mask |
| Ignaz Summelweis | Discovered sanitation prevents deaths |
| James Lind | Developed theory that citrus fruit cures scurvy(Vitamin C deficiency) |
| Howard Florey & Erns Chain | Discovered how to purify & extract penicillin |
| Gerhard Domagk | Developed sulfa drugs to fight infections |
| Sir Frederick Grant Banting, Charles Best & John James Rickard Maclead | Discovered insulin and how to treat diabetes with it. |
| Michael Bishop & Harold Varmus | Discovered everyone has cancer cells on a cellular level but they need a trigger |
| Luk Montegnier & Robert Gallo | Discovered How AID's work and that they come from HIV |
| Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins | Discovered vitamins are crucial for our survival & health |
| Joseph Murray | Performed first successful human kidney transplant |
| Benjamin Carson | Successfully separated Siamese twins in 1987 |
| Christian Barnard | Performed first successful heart transplant 1967 |
| Francis Crick & James Watson | Discovered the DNA sequence |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | First female physician in the US |
| James Blundell | First successful blood transfusion in 1818 |
| Rene Laennecc | Invented the stethoscope in 1816 |
| Dr. Jessee Bennet | Performed first successful C-section in 1794 |
| John Hunter | Established scientific surgical procedures and introduced the feeding tube in 1778 |
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