Historical Medical People and Their Contributions
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| Hippocrates | Father of Medicine - wrote the Hippocratic Oath
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| Anton van Leeuwenhoek | Invented microscope lens that allowed us to see organisms
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| Benjamin Franklin | Invented bifocals and found out that colds could be spread from one person to another
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| Edward jenner | Developed vaccine for smallpox
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| Rene Laennec | Invented the first stethoscope out of wood
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| Elizabeth Blackwell | First female physician in the United States
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| Florence Nightingale | "Founder of Modern Nursing" -Invented the call bell and dumbwaiter. Started first professional school for nurses.
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| Louis Pasteur | "Father of Microbiology" - Proved germs cause disease and they can be destroyed through pasteruization. Created a vaccine for rabies
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| Joseph Lister | Used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs - 1st doctor to use antisptic during surgery
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| Clara Barton | Formed the American Red Cross
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| Robert Koch | Devloped the culture plate (petri dish) method to study germs and discoverd the bacteria that caused TB
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| Wilhelm Roentgen | Discovered X-rays by accident
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| Sigmund Freud | His studies were the basis for psychology and psychiatry
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| Sir Alexander Flemming | Discovered penicillin
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| Jonas Salk | Discovered the polio vaccine
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| Francis Crick and James Watson | Described the structure of DNA and won the Noble Prize
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| Christian Barnard | Performed 1st successful heart transplant
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| Benjamin Carson | Famous for his surgery where he separated Siamese twins and he has refined a surgery on the brain to stop seizures
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