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Chapter 1

Important People

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Hippocrates (460-357 BCE) -Greek physician and philosopher; father of medicine -Four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile -Four balances: wet, dry, hot, cold -Believed in rest, good diet, and exercise
4 Humors and 4 Balances -Blood is air, phlegm is water, yellow bile is fire, black bile is earth -Blood is hot and wet, phlegm is cold and wet, yellow bile is hot and dry, black bile is cold and dry
Asclepius -Greek god of healing and medicine
Aristotle (384-322 BCE) -Greek philosopher and scientist -Main area was biology -Classified humans using dissected animals
Claudius Galen (129-210) -Greek physician -Believed in good diet, hygiene, and exercising -3PAD (pathology, pharmacology, physiology, anatomy, and diagnosing)
Paracelsus (1493-1541) -Swiss physician and alchemist -Treated illness with one med at a time -Introduced laudanum
Roger Bacon (1214-1294) -English philosopher and alchemist -Believed in math and measurements -Contributed to the scientific method
Gregor Mendel -Monk; father of genetics -Discovered through breeding pea plants
Florence Nightingale -Believed in cleanliness -Saved many lives during the Crimean war
Francis Crick and James Watson -Cited as co-discoverers of DNA's helical structure -Got nobel peace prize in 1962
Gerhard Domagk -Discovered the first synthetic drug in 1938, a sulfonamide, derived from a chemical dye
Louis Pasteur -French scientist -Invented pasteurization and vaccines for rabies, chickenpox, cholera, and anthrax -Establishes germ theory of disease
Alexander Fleming -Scottish physician and bacteriologist -Accidentally discovered penicillin by contaminating a dish with mold
Joseph Lister -Published Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery in 1867
Felix Hoffman -Developed aspirin in 1899
Deborah Persaud -First to cure a baby of HIV in US in 2013
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