History of Medicine
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- The father of medicine
- Hippocrates
- founded physiology, discovered arteries contained blood not air, "Prince of Physicians"
- Galen
- invented telescope
- Galileo
- Invented microscope
- Zacharius Janssen
- first to see bacteria, sperm cells, protozoa
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- invented feeding tube, "founder of surgery"
- John Hunter
- created the smallpox vaccine
- Edward Jenner
- invented the stethoscope
- Rene Laennec
- discovered that colds could be passed around, invented bifocals
- Benjamin Franklin
- his work solved rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, he fathered bacteriology
- Louis Pasteur
- created the antiseptic system
- Joseph Lister
- he discovered importance of disinfecting hands and clothing
- Ignaz Semmelweis
- He discovered the cause of cholera and tuberculosis
- Robert Koch
- found the magic bullet for syphilis, founded microbiology and chemotherapy, original microbe hunter
- Paul Ehrlich
- These two pioneered anesthesia
- William Morton and Crawford Long
- discovered x-rays
- William Roentgen
- The two discovered radium
- Pierre and Marie Curie
- developed psychiatry
- Sigmund Freud
- cured yellow fever
- Walter Reed (and others)
- first female doctor, she opened her own school
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- founder of nursing, during the crimean war she was known as the "lady with the lamp"
- Florence Nightingale
- the civil war nurse who founded the American Red Cross and the Federal bureau of Records
- Clara Barton