Test 1 Key Players Flashcards by Morgan Hawkins | Brainscape

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Hippocrates

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Father medicine

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Imhotep

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Ancient surgeon

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Galen

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Wrote books on human body

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Jacobus Sylvius

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Relied on Galen’s book; did not do own work

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Andreas Vesalius

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Found faults in Galen’s books

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Ambrose Pare

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Used silk and ointment to treat wounds

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William Harvey

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Discovered the heart was a pump

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Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek

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Made strong microscopes

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Humphrey Davy

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Discovered laughing gas

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Edward Jenner

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Discovered cowpox vaccine

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James Young Simpson

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Discovered chloroform

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William TG Morton

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Mixed ether and perfume

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Charles Jackson

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Morton’s tutor then rival

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Ignacio Phillip Semmelweiss

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Fought to prevent childbed fever

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