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Hippocrates (c. 460-377 BC)
Hippocrates is known as the father of medicine. He was a great physician who created a permanent impact on the development of medicine and on the ideals and ethics of the physician. -
Period: 400 to
Medical Discoveries
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocals, which are glasses that use the upper half for distance and the lower for reading. -
Edward Jenner (1749-1823)
Jenner was the first person to administer a smallpox vaccine. He tested it on an 8 year old boy by scratching cowpox into him. He got one blister and recovered quickly after. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth was the first woman to recieve a medical degree in an American medical school. She not only helped with the evolution of medicine, but also with women's rights. She graduated from New York's Geneva Medical College. -
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Florence was a very successful nurse in Europe. Florence was known as the 'Lady with the Lamp'. She helped to make the hospitals much more hygenic and lowered the death rate significantly. -
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
Louis Pasteur had many great acheivements. One was creating the process of pasteuriztation. His invention in the medical field was creating the vaccine for TB, Rabies, anthrax, cholera, and smallpox. -
Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Clara Barton was a nurse during the Civil War and founded the American branch of the Red Cross society. She was the first president. -
Wilhelm Rontgen (1845-1923)
Wilhelm discovered the X-Ray, which he first called 'X-Radiation'. He first tried it on his wife's hand. He was a Nobel- prize holding German scientist. -
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud is known as the father of psychiatry. He was known to push the boundaries of the current theories. He believed that all our actions are done because we do everything based on our internal desires. -
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered Penicillin. This changed the way modern medicine works and created a way to prevent the spread of infections. It came into use in World War 2 during battles.
