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History People-6B
History of Healthcare
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hippocrates | Father of Medicine Diseases caused by natural causes not demons & spirits Stressed good diet & cleanliness |
| Lister | Sterile techniques Surgical and OBGYN |
| Leeuwenhoek | Father of Microbiology 1st to record microscopic observations on muscle fibers and blood vessels |
| Florence Nightingale | Founder of Modern Nursing Developed from Crimean War Used stats to prove deaths decreased with improved sanitary conditions |
| Ben Franklin | Created bifocals and foley cather among other inventions |
| Clara Barton | Founder of American Red Cross During Civil War volunteered to care for wounded soldiers, pleaded to the public for suplies |
| Watson and Crick | Contributed to the discovery of DNA Won a Nobel Prize |
| Marie Curie | Discovery of Radium Nobel Prizes |
| Sam Kountz | Research in immunology Discovered medicine to help with acute rejection of kidney transplants |
| Louis Pasteur | Proved microorganisms cause disease Pasteurized milk to kill bacteria Created a vaccine for rabies |
| Charles Drew | Created safe and effective blood preservation and transport Separated plasma out of the blood Refrigeration of blood plasma so it could be sent to troops in WWII |
| Walter Reed | Worked in public health before joining the Army Proved Yellow Fever was carried by mosquitos |
| Fredrick Banting | Won a Nobel Prize for the extraction of insulin from the pancreas |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | First woman to graduate from medical school Studied midwifery |
| Fleming | Discovered penicillin Won a Nobel Prize |
| Sigmund Freud | Founder of Psychoanalysis First to recognize the influence of unconscious drives in shaping behaviors |
| Jonas Salk | Polio vaccine |
| Dorothy Brown | 1st African American female surgeon 1st single woman to adopt a child in TN |
| Ben Carson | Separated conjoined twins Neurosurgeon Wrote Gifted Hands Ran for president |
| Alexander Bell | Invented the first metal detector His inventions lead to other medical imaging techniques |
| Rene Leanne | Invented the stethoscope Studied chest sounds |
| Christian Barnard | Performed the first human to human heart transplant |
| William Morton | Began using ether as an anesthetic (put people to sleep) Dentist |
| Henrietta Lacks | Her biopsy cells were the first immortal line of research cells (done without her consent or knowledge) |
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