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Hippocrates

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Father of Medicine

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Rufus of Ephesus

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first description of hematuria attributed to the failure of kidneys

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Galen

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system of pathology; founder of experimental physiology

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Isaac Judaeus

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guidelines for the use of urine as a diagnostic aid

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William Harvey

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circulation of blood

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Athanasius Kircher

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earliest microscopist; use the microscope to investigate the causes of disease

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Robert Hooke

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used the microscope to document the existence of cells

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Marcello Malpighi

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founder of histology; histology and physiology of the glands and viscera

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Frederik Dekkers

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urine that contained protein would form a precipitate when boiled with acetic acid

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Thomas Willis

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sweet taste of diabetic urine; principle for the differential diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus

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Richard Lower

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perform direct transfusion of blood from one animal to another

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William Hewson

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cause of coagulation, which he called “coagulable lymph,” now known as fibrinogen

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Johannes Evangelista Purkinje

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descriptions of the germinal vesicle, protoplasm; discovery of the sudoriferous glands of skin

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Louis Pasteur

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concepts of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria; partial heat sterilization or Pasteurization; attenuated vaccines

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Robert Koch

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anthrax bacillus; method of obtaining pure cultures of organisms; perfecting the method of steam sterilization; Vibrio cholera and recognized its routes of transmission

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William Osler

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ward laboratories at Johns Hopkins Hospital

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Joseph Lister

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methods of antisepsis using carbolic acid

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Almroth Edward Wright

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role of calcium salts in the coagulation of blood; devised a coagulometer to estimate coagulation tim

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SOPOCAMA

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Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium – major electrolytes in the blood

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Paul Ehrlich

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methods of drying and fixing blood smears using heat; discovered methylene blue as a bacterial stain

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Alexander Fleming

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discovered penicillin

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Christian Gram

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bacteriological staining method

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R. J. Petri

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developed the plating technique using double dishes now called Petri dishes

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Ascaris Lumbricoides

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first parasite; intestinal parasite

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Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk
antibacterial action prontosil, a derivative of sulfonamide
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Otto Folin
Jaffe’s alkaline picrate method for creatinine; first normal values for uric acid, NPN, and protein in blood; discovered the Folin Ciocalteau reagent
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Karl Landsteiner
the concept of the human blood types; discovery of the Rh factor
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Rhogam
injected to the mother with Rh problem
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James C. Todd
first textbook of laboratory medicine
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A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis
first textbook of laboratory medicine
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John Kolmer
The Demand for and Training of Laboratory Technicians; description of the first formal training course in medical technology
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The Demand for and Training of Laboratory Technicians
description of the first formal training course in medical technology
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G.N. Papanicolaou
ability to recognize cancer in vaginal smears, thus beginning clinical cytology