inventors of medicine

Question 1

Gabriel Fahrenheit

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Created the first mercury thermometer in 1714

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Joseph Priestly

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discovered the element oxygen in 1744

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John Hunter

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Founder of scientific surgical procedure, introduction of the feeding tube, first English surgeon

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Benjamin Franklin

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Invented bifocals for glasses and found that colds could be passed from person to person

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James Lind

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Prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C to prevent scurvy in 1795

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Edward Jenner

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Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796

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Rene Laennec

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Invented the first stethoscope.

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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First woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S., first female physician in the United States in 1849

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Florence nightingale

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Founder of modern nursing, established sanitary nursing units during the Crimean War in 1854

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Dorothea Dix

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Appointed superintendent of female nursing in the army in 1861

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Joseph Lister

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Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery to prevent infection in 1865

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Clara Barton

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Founded the American Red Cross

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Louis Pasteur

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Proved that microorganisms cause disease ; pasteurize milk to kill bacteria , created vaccines for rabies in 1885

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Robert Koch

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Father of microbiology, Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and isolate the bacteria causing tuberculosis

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Wilhelm Roentgen

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discovered x-rays (roentgenogram) in 1895

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Marie Curie

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Isolated radium in 1910

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Sir Alexander Fleming

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Discovered penicillin in 1928

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Fredrick Banting and Charles Best

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Discovered the use of insulin to treat diabetes in 1922

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Jonas Salk

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Developed the polio vaccine Using dead polio virus in 1952

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Hippocrates

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Called the Father of Medicine; developed an organized method to observe the human body; recorded signs and symptoms of many diseases; created high standards of ethics, the Oath of Hippocrates, used by physicians today.

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Aristotle

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dissected animals and is called the founder of comparative anatomy; also believed that illness is a result of natural causes.

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Rhazes (Al-Razi)

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an Arab physician based diagnosis on the signs and symptoms of disease; suggested that blood was the cause of many infectious diseases.

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Artist Michelangelo and Leonardo de Vinci

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Used dissection in order to draw the human body more realistically

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Roger Bacon

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Promoted chemical remedies to treat disease

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Gabriel Fallopius

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identified the fallopian tubes in females

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William Harvey

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Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart in 1628