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PHS Ch1
Ch1 healthcare biography
| name | Description |
|---|---|
| Hippocrates | Father of Medicine, recorded signs and symptoms of diseases |
| Alexander Fleming | Discovered penicillin |
| Jonas Salk | Developed the polio vaccine |
| Joseph Lister | First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery |
| Clara Barton | Founded American Red Cross |
| Karl Landsteiner | Blood transfusions |
| John Enders | Modern vaccines |
| Howard Florey | Penicillin for bacterial diseases |
| Frederick Banting & Charles Best | Insulin for diabetes solated insulin and used it in the treatment of diabetes: |
| Piero Sensi | Tuberculosis-curing drugs |
| David Nalin | Oral rehydration therapy for cholera and diarrhea |
| David Cushman | Blood pressure drugs |
| Andreas Gruentzig | Angioplasty to widen arteries |
| Akira Endo | Statins for heart attacks and strokes |
| James Jude | Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) |
| Florence Nightingale | the founder of modern nursing practices established the first school of nursing |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Used dissection to sketch realistic human figures |
| William Harvey | Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart |
| René Laënnec | Invented the stethoscope |
| Louis Pasteur | Father of microbiology; pasteurized milk to kill bacteria |
| Anton van Leeuwenhoek | invented the microscope |
| William Morton | used ether as an anesthetic |
| Joseph Murray | performed the first successful kidney transplant |
| Frederick Banting/Charles Best | isolated insulin and used it in the treatment of diabetes: |
| Aristotle | considered the founder of comparative anatomy |
| Bartolomeo Eustachio | identified the tube connecting ear and throat |
| Benjamin Franklin | Bifocals for glasses were invented by |
| Claudius Galen | studied infectious diseases |
| Dorothea Dix | instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill. |
| Edward Jenner | A vaccination for smallpox was developed in 1796 |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | Became the first female physician in the United States in 1849 |
| Gabriel Fahrenheit | Created the first mercury thermometer in 1714 |
| George Papanicolaou | developed test for cancer |
| Gregory Mendel | developed the principles of heredity |
| James Lind | used lime juice to prevent scurvy |
| Joseph Priestley | discovery of oxygen and describe some of its extraordinary properties. Carbonated water |
| Marie Curie | Isolated radium in 1910 |
| Robert Koch | Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens in 1882 |
| Sigmund Freud | The individual whose studies formed the basis for psychology and psychiatry |
| Wilhelm Roentgen | Discovered X-rays in 1895 |
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PHS 2026