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Clara Barton   Founded the American Red Cross in 1881  
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Chinese   Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion  
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Marie Curie   Isolated radium in 1910  
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Leonardo Da Vinci   Artist who used dissection to draw the human body  
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Dark Ages   Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited  
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Egyptians   Earliest people known to maintain accurate health programs  
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Gabriel Fahrenheit   Created the First mercury thermometer  
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Sir Alexander Flemming   Discovered pencillin in 1928  
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William Harvery   Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart  
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Hipprocrates   The father of medicine  
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Edward Jenner   Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796  
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Robert Koch   Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens  
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Joseph Lister   Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery  
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Gregory Mendel   Established the patterns of heredity  
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Florence Nightingale   Founder of modern nursing  
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Louis Pasteur   Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria  
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Rhazes   An arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material  
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William Roentgen   Discovered x-rays in 1895  
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Romans   Began public health and sanitation systems  
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Jonas Salk   Developed the polio vaccine in 1952  
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James Lind   discovered the need for vitamin c in a diet  
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Ignaz Semmelweis   made the connection between bacteria and infenction  
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Dr. Horace Wells, William Morton, & Crawford Long   all three doctors claim to have discovered anesthesia  
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Karl Landsteiner   discovered the four blood types, A,B,AB,O  
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Adreas Vesalius   investigated anatomy by disecting bodies  
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Luk Montagnier and Robert Gallo   Montagnier~ Virologist, 2008 Nobel prize for discovering AIDS Gallo~ AIDS research, HIV, antiviral drug therapy  
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Gerhard Domagk   discovered Sulfa drugs in 1935  
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Michael Bishop & Harold Varmus   researched and discovered cancer causing genes  
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting, Charles Best, and John James Rickard Macleod   studied how insulin affects the body  
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Howard Florey & Erns Chains   purified pencillin  
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What did ancient people think was the cause of diseas and illness?   Evil spirits, demon's, and god's punishments  
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List 4 things Hippocrates stressed to help the body heal itself?   Good diet, cleanliness, clean water, good sanitation  
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What is the Rod of Asclepius?   Asclepius is the God of medicine and healing  
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In the dark ages, what was the main method used to treat illnesses and dieases?   Stressed prayers  
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List at least 4 diseases that shortened the life span of individuals in the Middle Ages?   small pox, typhus, scurvy, bubonic plague  
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Why was dissection a major advance in health care during the Renaissance?   helped people understand the parts of the body  
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What was the significance of the invention of the microscope in 1666?   to see organisms too small for the human eye to see  
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What did apothecaries use to make many of the medications in the 17th century?   Plants & herbs  
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Why was the invention of the stethoscope in 1819 important?   it allowed to listen to internal body sounds; knowledge of body  
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Identify 4 women who made important contributions to the advance of health care.   1. Clara Barton: found the red cross in 2. Florence Nightingale: founder of modern nursing 3. Marie Carie: isolated radium 4. Dorothea Dix: superintendent of female nursed in the army  
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