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History Of Medicine

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Hippocrate   Father of Medicine  
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Benjamin Franklin   Invented bifocals  
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Anthon Van Leeuwenhook   Invented microscope  
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Rene Laennec   Ivented stethoscope  
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Alexander Flemming   Discovered Penicilin  
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Edward Jenner   Discovered smallpox vaccine  
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Elizabeth Blackwell   First female physician  
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Louis Pasteur   Proved disease is caused by microorganisms as well as discovered pasteurization process.  
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Clara Barton   Found the American Red Cross  
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Joseph Lister   First to use antiseptic practices during surgery.  
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Robert Koch   Father of Microbiology  
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William Roentgen   Discovered X-Rays  
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Sigmund Freud   Psychology and Psychiatry  
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Jonas Salk   Discovered Polio Vaccine  
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James Watson and Francis Crick   Discoverer and Co-Discoverer of DNA  
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Christian Barnard   First successful heart transplant.  
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William Harvey   Doscovered circulation of blood from the heart.  
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Ignaz Semmelweis   Encouraged physicians to wash hands before and after autopsies as well as delivering babies.  
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Rhazes   Arab Physician who first used animal gut.  
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Frederick Banting and Charles Best   Discovred insulin for use in treating diabetes.  
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Florence Nightingale   Founder of modern nursing  
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Egyptians   First known written health records.  
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Greeks   Believed illnesses were natural causes.  
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Romans   First drainage and sanitation systems.  
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Andreas Vassalius   First anatomy based on dissection  
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Leonardo Davinci   More accurate anatomy of the human body  
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Dr David Ho   Conducted research on HIV  
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Crawford Long   Used ether as anesthetic agent  
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Marie Curie   Discovered Radium  
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Horace Wells   Nitrous oxide as an anesthetic agent  
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Emil Von Behring   discovers antioxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines  
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Felix Hoffman   Develops Aspirin  
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Karl Landsteiner   Different blood types  
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John Hopps   Invents Cardiac Pacemaker  
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Robert S. Ledley   Develops CAT scans  
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Williams J Kolff   Invents artificial kidney dialysis machine  
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James Blundell   First successful transfusion of blood  
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James Lind   Treating scary with fruits  
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Luc Montagnier   Discovers HIV  
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