Question | Answer |
Clara Barton | The founder of the American Red Cross. |
Florence Nightingale | Known as the founder of modern nursing |
Jonas Salk | Created the polio vaccine |
Hippocrates | The "Father of Medicine"; organized the method of observing the human body |
Ignaz Semmelweis | Discovered that child-birth fever and other diseases were caused by doctors not washing their hands |
William Harvey | Knew that blood flew in our bodies and correctly explained it |
James Lind | Discovered that sailors got Scurvy due to lack of Vitamin C |
Joseph Lister | Started to use disinfectants during surgeries to control the amount of bacteria |
Edward Jenner | Discovered the smallpox vaccine |
Alexander Fleming | Discovered penicillin |
The Romans | Began public health and sanitation systems |
Wilhelm Roentgen | Discovered X-rays |
Louis Pasteur | Discovered that the heating of germs killed them; Came up with the germ theory; Credited with finding a vaccine for rabies |
Benjamin Franklin | Invented the bifocal glasses |
Leonardo da Vinci | Dissected human bodies in order to study the anatomy and draw it |
Dorthea Dix | The crusader for Mental Health |
The Chinese | Used acupuncture for the relieving of pain and congestion |
Gerhard Domagk | Discovered the Sulfa drugs |
Elizabeth Blackwell | Was the first female physician in the U.S. |
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson | Was the first female physician in Great Britain. |
Anton von Leeuwenhoek | Created the microscope; believed that there were organisms smaller |
Rene Laennec | Invented the stethoscope; Studied Tuberculosis |
Sigmund Freud | Changed our ideas on how the human mind functions |
Robert Koch | Developed the culture plate method in order to identify harmful pathogens |
Paul Enrlich | Contributed to the cure of chemotherapy |
Joseph Priestly | Was able to isolate oxygen |
Rhazes | Began the use of animal gut for suture material |
Gabriel Fahrenheit | Created the first mercury thermometer |
Egyptians | Are the earliest people known to maintain accurate health records |
Marie Curie | Discovered polonium and radium |
Gregory Mendel | Established the patterns of heredity |
Bartolommeo Eustachios | Discovered the human ear's Eustachian tube |
James Watson and Francis Crick | Discovered the basic building blocks of life; Discovered DNA |
Andreas Vesalius | Dissected a human body; wrote a book containing the first accurate description of the human body and its anatomy |
Joseph Murray | Performed first successful kidney transplant |
Karl Lansteiner | Discovered that a person can survive a blood transfusion if the donor had the same blood type; Made 4 blood type groups: A, B, O, and AB |
Luk Montagnier and Robert Gallo | Discovered that HIV causes AIDS |