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PBHS Medicine
Famous Medical Scientists
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Father of modern medicine; Father of anatomy | Andreas Vesalius |
| He dissected executed criminals to understand the human body | Vesalius |
| One of his books is in lower right hand corner of "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" by Rembrandt | Vesalius |
| Translated and corrected many of Galen's works into Latin | Vesalius |
| English; developed successful smallpox vaccine | Edward Jenner |
| Father of Immunology | Jenner |
| He discovered that milkmaids who caught cowpox had immunity to smallpox | Jenner |
| Vaccine comes from the Latin vaca meaning ___ | cow |
| English physician of Charles I who described circulation of blood through heart and vessels. | William Harvey |
| Major work De Motu Cardis | Harvey |
| Estimated that more people have died from ___ than from all wars in history of world. | smallpox |
| Antiseptic surgery by using carbolic acid (phenol) to sterilize instruments and clean wounds. | Joseph Lister |
| Namesake of a genus of pathogenic bacteria--Listeria--most lethal food poisoning | duh,Lister |
| French, Father of Microbiology and champion of germ theory of disease | Louis Pasteur |
| He studied beer and wine fermentation, discovering that some microbes are are anaerobic | Pasteur |
| Anaerobic means | without oxygen or not requiring oxygen |
| Used heat to kill dangerous microbes in liquids like milk. Process called ____ | Pasteur, pasteurization |
| Swan-neck flask experiments to disprove spontaneous generation | Pasteur |
| Developed vaccines for anthrax, rabies, and chicken cholera, and saved Joseph Meister with his rabies vaccine | Pasteur |
| German; used arsenic-based Salvarsan to treat syphilis | Paul Ehrlich |
| Promoted search for other "magic bullet" drug to kill microbes without harming human cells | Ehrlich |
| Coined "chemotherapy" | Ehrlich |
| German rival of Pasteur who isolated bacteria causing anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera | Robert Koch |
| Discovered resistance by forming endospores | Koch |
| Carrier of disease believed by Koch was later confirmed by this case | Typhoid Mary |
| First polio vaccine by | Jonas Salk |
| First oral polio vaccine by | Albert Sabin |
| First heart transplant done by | Christiaan Barnard (South African) |
| First successful artificial heart developed by | Robert Jarvik; the Jarvik-7 |
| Developed 1st oral contraceptive (birth control pill) at behest of Sanger and McCormick | Gregory Pincus |
| Successful Test-tube rabbits | Pincus |
| Hungarian called "saviour of mothers" for hand washing in obstetrics | Ignaz Semmelweis |
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