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Jan 1, 1400
Dark & Middle ages
Study of medicine science stopped for over 1000 years. It used herbal medicine also had many plagues and epidemics. -
Andreas Vesalius Leonardo Da Vinci
Dissected human bodies and made the first anatomical drawings. Helped understanding organs and systems of the human body. -
William Harvery
Descrived the circulation of the blodd and the pumping of the heart. -
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope -
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Created the first mercury thermometer. -
Ren Laennec
Invented the Stethoscope -
The Renaissance
The Activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature,marking the transition from the medievel to the modern times. -
Benjamin Franklin
Invented bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person. -
Edward Jenner
vaccination for smallpox(which is related to cowpox) -
Elizabeth Blackwell
She became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing. -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered x-rays, which allowors to see inside the body to discover what was wrong with the patient. -
Joseph Lister
The first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision. -
Louis Pasteur
Rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms caused disease and discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of baterica. -
Robert Koch
Father of Microbiology He discovered many disease- causing organisms- anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera. -
Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic. This was considered one of the most important discoveries in the twentieth century. -
Dorothea Dix
Played a role as an advocate for improvments in the treatments of patients suffering from mental and emotional disorders, the most visible humanitarian reformer. -
Ignas Semmelweiss
Identified the cause of maternal infections instituted hand washing. Medical students that would deliver babies after coming from the cadaver lab without washing their hands, caused the death of many newborn babies and mothers. -
Florence Nightingale
Started the first school of nursing during the Crimean War and made nursin an honorable profession. -
Sigmund Freud
Studied the effects of the unconscious mind on the body. he determined that the mind and body work together. studys were the basis of psychology and psychiatry. -
Clara Barton
Angel of the battlefield. she established the american red cross -
Albert Sabin
Creator of the oral polio vaccine, which was more effective than Salk's Vaccine. -
Jonas Salk
Discovered an altered polio virus vaccine -
Rhazes
An arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material. -
Christian Barnard
The world's first heart transplant surgery.
