30 ppl Flashcards by Keya Kadakia | Brainscape

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Edward Jenner

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Small Pox vaccine

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Hippocrates

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father the medicine (Hippocratic oath)

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Joseph Murray

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first successful kidney transplant

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Frederick Hopkins

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Vitamins are essential for good health

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Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier

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HIV

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William Harvey

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Circulatory System

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Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

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x-ray

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Watson and Crick

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DNA

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Frederick Banting

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Insulin

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Louis Pasteur

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Germ Theory

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Alexander Fleming

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Penciliin

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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1st microscope

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James Lind

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citrus fruits prevent scurvy

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Sir Humphry Davy and Horace Wells

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nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

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William Morton

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Ether as an anesthetic

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Rene Laennec

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Stethoscope

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James Blundell

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first successful blood transfusion

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Joseph Lister

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antiseptic /asepsis

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Karl Landsteiner

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discovery of blood antibodies

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Michael Debakey

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pioneering procedures in the field of cardiovascular defects

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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first female physician

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Florence Nightingale

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founder of modern nursing

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Clara Barton

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Founder of the Red Cross

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Robert Jarvik

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First successful permanent artificial heart

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Godfrey Hounsfield

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CT Scanner

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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Handwashing childbed fever

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Marie Curie

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Discovery of Radium and polonium

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Gerty Cori

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first woman to win Nobel prize in medicine

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Henry Judah Heimlich

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life saving choking maneuver

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William Kouwenhoven

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CPR/defibrillation