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Health Care history

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