Healthcare Heroes Flashcards
Edward Jenner
small pox vaccine
Hippocrates
“Father of Modern Medicine”
Joseph Murray
first successful human kidney transplant
Fredrick Hopkins
“vitamins are essential for good health”
Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier
HIV treatment
William Harvey
circulatory system
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
x-ray
Watson and Crick
DNA
Fredrick Banting
insulin
Louis Pasteur
Germ Theory
Alexander Flemming
penicillin
Anton van Loewenhoek
first 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 Lannec
stethoscope
James Blundell
first successful blood transfusion
Joseph Lister
anesthetic (child bed fever)
Karl Landsteiner
discovery of blood antibodies
Michael Debakey
pioneered 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
Godfrey Hounsfield
CT scanner
Ignaz Semmelweis
clinical hand washing standards
Marie Curie
discovery of radium and polonium
Gerty Cori
first woman to win the Nobel Prize in medicine
Henry Judah Heimlich
life saving choking (Heimlich) maneuver
William Kouwenhoven
CPR / defibrillation