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Hist of Medicine HST
Chap.1 Important people: Diversified Health Occupations
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hippocrates | Created standard of medical ethics |
| Aristotle | Facts over theory. Comparative anatomy. |
| Leonardo da Vinci | First real drawings of the anatomy of the body |
| William Harvey | Circulation of blood |
| Anton van Leeuwenhoek | Invented microscope |
| Rene Laennec | Invented stethoscope |
| Joseph Priestly | Discovered oxygen |
| Benjamin Franklin | Found colds can be passed person-person |
| Edward Jenner | Small pox vaccine |
| Ignaz Semmelweisse | Handwashing |
| Louis Pasteur | Microorganisms cause disease |
| Jonas Salk | Dead Polio Virus provides immunity from disease |
| Alfred Sabin | Live Polio Virus provides better immunity from disease than dead virus |
| Florence Nightingale | 1st nursing school. Made nursing a respectable profession |