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began the study of diseases. Code of ethics created fro physicians "Hippocratic Oath." Began public health and sanitation systems.
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Hippocrates, "the father of medicine" a greek philospher started searching for the natural explanations of diseases.
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Study of medical science stopped. Focus was religion. plagues and epidemics accured.
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the Rebirth of science and discovery. Disections accured and printing press invented.
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Andreas Vesalins and Leonardo Da Vinci, disected and study the human body. created the first anatomical drawings.
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Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invented the first microscope.
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William Harvey acurately described the circulation of blood to and from the Heart.
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physicist Gabrial Fahrenheit, invented the first mercury in-glass thermometer. as well as the Fahrenheit temperature scale named after himself.
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Stephen Hales, took the first recorded measurement of blood pressure on a horse.
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Edward Jenner discovered the vaccine for smallpox.
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Humphry Davy, discovered the pain releif properties of nitrous oxide. coined the term "laughing gas"
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Dentist, Horace Wells was the first to use nitrous oxide to anesthetize patients.
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Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing. created a nursing school.
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Louis Pasteur was a microbiologist and chemist who researched the causes and preventions of diseases. he learned that beverages were consumed with dangerous organisms and tested heating them to kill the bacteria. this was later known as pasteurization.
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Gregory Mendel established the patterns of heredity.
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
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Joseph Lister was the first doctor to use disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery.
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William Roentgen discovered X-rays
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Robert Koch, the founder of bacteriology, discovered the bacteria causing tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax. developed culture plate method to identify pathogens.
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Marie Curie was the first women to recieve the nobel prize on her studies of radioactivity and her skills in isolating radioactive isotopes.
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Sir Alexander Fleming invented the antibiotic, Penicillin.
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Robert Gross, preformed the first surgical correction of a common heart illness in children. "open heart surgery"
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Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine for polio.
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Herman Carr produced the one dimensional MRI, that magnetically x-rayed the contrast of soft tissues. very good for looking at the brain.
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in great britain, Louise Brown is the first tube baby to be born.
