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Important people in the Medical Field and their contributions.

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