30 ppl Flashcards
Edward Jenner
Small Pox vaccine
Hippocrates
father the medicine (Hippocratic oath)
Joseph Murray
first successful kidney transplant
Frederick Hopkins
Vitamins are essential for good health
Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier
HIV
William Harvey
Circulatory System
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
x-ray
Watson and Crick
DNA
Frederick Banting
Insulin
Louis Pasteur
Germ Theory
Alexander Fleming
Penciliin
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
1st microscope
James Lind
citrus fruits prevent scurvy
Sir Humphry Davy and Horace Wells
nitrous oxide as an anesthetic
William Morton
Ether as an anesthetic
Rene Laennec
Stethoscope
James Blundell
first successful blood transfusion
Joseph Lister
antiseptic /asepsis
Karl Landsteiner
discovery of blood antibodies
Michael Debakey
pioneering procedures in the field of cardiovascular defects
Elizabeth Blackwell
first female physician
Florence Nightingale
founder of modern nursing
Clara Barton
Founder of the Red Cross
Robert Jarvik
First successful permanent artificial heart