People through 4C Flashcards

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Hippocrates

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Legendary healer physician. Wrote the Hippocratic Corpus. Established Humoral theory. Bloodletting advocate

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Galen

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Codified humoral theory. Blood is constantly produced. Final authority in medieval europe into the early modern period.

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Andreas Vesalius

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Anatomical dissection. Started to prove Galen wrong.

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William Harvey

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Demonstrated circulation of blood, further disproving the Humoral Theory

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Thomas Sydenham

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Believed in observation of patients. Rejected fever as the disease. Developed disease specifity and nosology

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Giovanni Battista Morgagni

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Carefully correlated post-mortem findings with ante-mortem case history. Localized pathological findings to specific organs instead of some sort of imbalance.

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Leopold Auenbrugger

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Used percussion to examine the chest

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Edward Jenner

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first vaccination for smallpox

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Benjamin Rush

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Advocated for heroic medicine and helped it become popular in early American Republic

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Jean Nicolas Corvisart

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Adopted Auenbrugger’s percussion and studied heart diseases

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Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

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Pathologies localized to different tissue planes within organs

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Rene Laennec

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First stethoscope to focus on tuberculosis. - Auscultation of the chest. Led to terms like rales, rhonchi, and wheezes

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Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis

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Distrusted simple observation and began using the Numerical Method

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3 Fundamental procedures of Paris School:

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Physical examination, localization of the disease process through autopsy, numerical method

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Joseph Jackson Lister

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Significant improvements to the miscroscope.

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Robert Brown

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identified, described, and named the cell nucelus

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Schleiden and Schwann

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First Cell Theory

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Rudolf Virchow

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Finished third tenet of cell theory. Localized important pathological processes to cells. Leukemia

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First Modern Scientists were _____

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Product of german universities

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Hermann von Helmholtz

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Ophthalmoscope (eyes)

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Harvey Cushing

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Brought a sphygmomanometer back to Baltimore

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Robert Koch

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staining and tissue fixation techniques, oil immersion, microphotography. Worked with the anthrax pathogen

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Karl Weigert

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staining and tissue fixation techniques

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Christian Gram

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Positive or negative gram bacteria

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Claude Bernard
Greatest Physiologist of his day- focused on controlled circumstances of experimental research. Blinded experiments
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Johannes Muller
German physiologist. Joined chemisty and physiology.
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Louis Pasteur
personified the importance of science to medicine. examined fermentations and visualized microbes. Disproved spontaneous generation. Inspired Lister and theorized Germ Theory. Big in vaccinations
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Sir Charles Bell
Bell's Palsy
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Sir Charles Sherrington
identified synaptic connection and communication among neurons
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John Snow
Proved cholera is water-borne. Traced source of 1854 broad street cholera outbreak in London. Father of epidemiology. Early adopter of anesthesia
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Horace Wells + William Morton
Anesthesia. Proved is in Ether Dome
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Joseph Lister
Work in surgical antisepsis. Adherent of the new germ theory. Used carbolic acid.
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Walter Bradford Cannon
America's foremost experimental physiologist in 20th century
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