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Hippocrates
Father of Medicine
Rufus of Ephesus
first description of hematuria attributed to the failure of kidneys
Galen
system of pathology; founder of experimental physiology
Isaac Judaeus
guidelines for the use of urine as a diagnostic aid
William Harvey
circulation of blood
Athanasius Kircher
earliest microscopist; use the microscope to investigate the causes of disease
Robert Hooke
used the microscope to document the existence of cells
Marcello Malpighi
founder of histology; histology and physiology of the glands and viscera
Frederik Dekkers
urine that contained protein would form a precipitate when boiled with acetic acid
Thomas Willis
sweet taste of diabetic urine; principle for the differential diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus
Richard Lower
perform direct transfusion of blood from one animal to another
William Hewson
cause of coagulation, which he called “coagulable lymph,” now known as fibrinogen
Johannes Evangelista Purkinje
descriptions of the germinal vesicle, protoplasm; discovery of the sudoriferous glands of skin
Louis Pasteur
concepts of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria; partial heat sterilization or Pasteurization; attenuated vaccines
Robert Koch
anthrax bacillus; method of obtaining pure cultures of organisms; perfecting the method of steam sterilization; Vibrio cholera and recognized its routes of transmission
William Osler
ward laboratories at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Joseph Lister
methods of antisepsis using carbolic acid
Almroth Edward Wright
role of calcium salts in the coagulation of blood; devised a coagulometer to estimate coagulation tim
SOPOCAMA
Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium – major electrolytes in the blood
Paul Ehrlich
methods of drying and fixing blood smears using heat; discovered methylene blue as a bacterial stain
Alexander Fleming
discovered penicillin
Christian Gram
bacteriological staining method
R. J. Petri
developed the plating technique using double dishes now called Petri dishes
Ascaris Lumbricoides
first parasite; intestinal parasite