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History of Medicine
09/16/19 history of medicine quiz study stack
Term | Definition |
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Carla Barton | Founded the American Red Cross in 1881 |
Chinese | Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion |
Marie Curie | Isolated radium in 1910 |
Leonardo da Vinci | Artist who used dissection to draw the human body |
Dark Ages | Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited |
Dorothea Dix | Appointed as Superintendent of Female Nurses of the Army in 1861 |
Egyptians | Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records |
Gabriel Fahrenheit | Created the first mercury thermometer |
Sir Alexander Fleming | Discovered Penicillin in 1928 |
Benjamin Franklin | Invented bifocal glasses |
Sigmund Freud | Studies formed the basis for psychology and psychiatry flu |
William Harvey | Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart |
Hippocrates | Father of Medicine |
Edward Jenner | Created vaccine for smallpox in 1796 |
Robert Koch | Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens |
Joseph Lister | Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery |
Gregory Mendel | Established the patterns of heredity |
Florence Nightingale | Founder of modern nursing |
Louis Pasteur | Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria |
Rhazes | An Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material |
William Roentgen | Discovered X-rays in 1895 |
Romans | Began public health and sanitation systems |
Jonas Salk | Developed polio vaccine in 1952 |
Andreas Vesalius | Dissected human bodies and wrote Human Anatomy book in 1500's |
Karl Landsteiner | Discovered different blood types and named them |
Dr. Horace Wells, William Morton, and Crawford Long | Invented first form of anesthesia and production mask |
Ignaz Summelweis | Discovered sanitation prevents deaths |
James Lind | Developed theory that citrus fruit cures scurvy(Vitamin C deficiency) |
Howard Florey & Erns Chain | Discovered how to purify & extract penicillin |
Gerhard Domagk | Developed sulfa drugs to fight infections |
Sir Frederick Grant Banting, Charles Best & John James Rickard Maclead | Discovered insulin and how to treat diabetes with it. |
Michael Bishop & Harold Varmus | Discovered everyone has cancer cells on a cellular level but they need a trigger |
Luk Montegnier & Robert Gallo | Discovered How AID's work and that they come from HIV |
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins | Discovered vitamins are crucial for our survival & health |
Joseph Murray | Performed first successful human kidney transplant |
Benjamin Carson | Successfully separated Siamese twins in 1987 |
Christian Barnard | Performed first successful heart transplant 1967 |
Francis Crick & James Watson | Discovered the DNA sequence |
Elizabeth Blackwell | First female physician in the US |
James Blundell | First successful blood transfusion in 1818 |
Rene Laennecc | Invented the stethoscope in 1816 |
Dr. Jessee Bennet | Performed first successful C-section in 1794 |
John Hunter | Established scientific surgical procedures and introduced the feeding tube in 1778 |