People Flashcards
Father of medicine
Hippocrates
German doctor who identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis
Robert Koch
Believed to be the first Physician
Imoptep
A biochemist that identified the brain as the physiological site of senses
Alcmeaon
Physician who believed the body was regulated by four humors; blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile.
Claudius Galen
Dissected animals and is called the founder of comparative anatomy
Aristotle
Became know as the Arab Hippocrates, observed disease and distinguished the difference between smallpox and measles.
Rhazes
Physician who described the parasite causing scabies
Avenzoar
Frist book on antomy was made by
Andreas Vesalius
Book on die tics
Issac Judaeus
French surgeon who became know as the father of modern surgery.
Ambroise Pare
Made the microscope in 1666
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Created the first mercury thermometer in 1714
Gabriel Fahrenheit
English surgeon who established scientific surgical procedure
John Hunter
Invented the bifocals for glasses
Benjamin Franklin
Prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C to prevent scurvy in 1795
James Lind