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Health Care history

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Hippocrates   father of modern medicine  
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Aristotle   first to study anatomy  
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Claudius Galen   discovered blood is carried through the arteries  
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Leonardo Da Vinci   first to use dissection  
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Ambroise Pare   the father of modern surgery  
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William Harvey   discovered the circulation of blood  
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek   invented a microscope  
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Joseph Priestley   found you element oxygen  
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Benjamin Franklin   invented the bifocals  
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Edward Jenner   created the vaccination for smallpox  
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Rene Laennec   invented the stethoscope  
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Philippe Pinel   discovered humane treatment  
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Semmelweis   discovered handwashing  
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William Morton   he discovered ether amnesia  
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Elizabeth Blackwell   first female physician  
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Florence Nightingale   founder of modern nursing  
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Joseph Lister   antispetic  
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Paul Ehrlich   cure for syphilis  
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Clara Barton   started american red cross  
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Robert Koch   father of microbiology  
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Louis Pasteur   pasteurization  
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Wilhelm Rontgen   invented the x ray  
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Sigmund Freud   father of psychoanalysis  
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Alexander Flemming   discovered pincillian  
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Jonas Salk   polio vaccine  
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