Healthcare Heroes Flashcards by Emaan Ansari | Brainscape

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Edward Jenner

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small pox vaccine

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Hippocrates

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“Father of Modern Medicine”

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Joseph Murray

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first successful human kidney transplant

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Fredrick 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 treatment

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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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Fredrick Banting

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insulin

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Louis Pasteur

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Germ Theory

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Alexander Flemming

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penicillin

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Anton van Loewenhoek

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first 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 Lannec

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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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anesthetic (child bed fever)

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Karl Landsteiner

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discovery of blood antibodies

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Michael Debakey

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pioneered 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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clinical hand washing standards

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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 the Nobel Prize in medicine

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Henry Judah Heimlich

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life saving choking (Heimlich) maneuver

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William Kouwenhoven

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CPR / defibrillation