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Medical People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| leonardo davinci | (1452-1519) Studied anatomy by dissecting human corpses |
| william Harvey | (1578-1658) He knew blood flew through the body |
| Gabriele Fallopius | (1523-1562) condoms,named fallopian tubes |
| Bartolommeo Eustachios | (1520-1574) discovered the Eustacian tube in the ear |
| Anton von Leeuwenhoek | (1632-1723) creates microscope, thinks there are living organisms smaller than the eye can see |
| Joseph Priestly | (1732-1804) isolated oxygen by heating mercuiric acid |
| Benjamin Franklin | (1706-1790) Bifocal glasses, developed flexible urinary catheter, believed diseases happened more in rooms without venilation |
| Rene Laennec | (1781-1826) invented stethescope described evolution of Tuberculosis |
| Edward Jenner | (1749-1823) discovered vaccine for smallpox,founder of immunology and pioneer of modern virology |
| Louis Pasteur | (1822-1895) discovered diseases are spread by bacteria,pasteurazation-killing germs by heat, microbes fighting off the called vaccination |
| Joseph Lister | (1827-1912) studied coagulation of blood in injuries, to control bacteria he began to spray carbolic acid on surgical instruments and wounds |
| Ernest VanBergmann | (1836-1907) Asepsis(sterilizing) |
| Ignaz Semmelweis | Handwashing |
| Clara Barton | 1864-founded American Red Cross |
| Dorothy Dix | Mental Health crusader |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | First women doctor |
| Florence Nightingale | opened first nursing school, pionner of modern nursing |
| Robert Koch | (1843-1910) 1870 demostrated that Bacillus anthrax spores cause an infection in mice, father of microbiology/ Bacteriology |
| Wilhem Roentgen | (1845-1923) discovered x-rays |
| Paul Enrlich | (1854-1915) contributions to cure of syphilis, immunology, hematology, chemotherapy |
| Sigmund Freud | (1856-1939) revolutionized ideas on how the human mind works |
| Alexander Fleming | (1881-1955) bacteriologist who discovers that mold can kill a germ, Penicillin notatum |
| Gerhard Domagk | Discovered sulfa drugs |
| Jonas Salk | (1914-1995) inactive vaccine against polio |
| Albert Sabin | (1906-1993) "live virus" oral vaccine proved more efficent |
| Watson and Crick | discovered basic building blocks of life, double helix structure is an acid that causes the information to "program" the cells work, grow and determine the differences between individuals (DNA) |
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