History Of Medicine Flashcards
William Harvey
Discovered that the flow of blood must be continuously flowing in one direction
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
“Father of microbiology” created the microscope
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Discovered that liquids boil at fixed temperatures
Benjamin Franklin
Opened the first medical school
Edward Jenner
Vaccination of small pox
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope
Elizabeth Blackwell
The first women to graduate from medical school
Florence nightingale
Founder of modern nursing
Michelangelo and da Vinci
Drew the first realistic drawing of the human body
Joseph Lister
A surgeon who Introduced new principles of cleanliness
Louis pasture
Came up with the food preparing process known as pasteurization
Gregor Mendel
Discovered basic principles of heredity
Marie curie
Discovered polonium and radiation
Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin
Rosalind Franklin
Discovered DNA
Clara Barton
Founded the American Red Cross
Robert Koch
Petrie dish creator
Gregor Mendel
Discovered basic principles of heredity
Dimitri Ivanovsky
Detail many of the characteristics of the organisms that came to be known as viruses
Wilhelm rontgen
X-ray generator
Signing Freud
Theory that the mind is a complex energy system
Watson and crick
Discovered DNA