Scientists
Definitions
Public Health
Medicine
Nursing
100

Invented the microscope

Leeuwenhoek

100

A period in time

Era

100

instrument used to hear sounds in the body

stethoscope

100
Discovered Penicillin

Alexander Fleming

100

trusting in magic or chance

superstitious

200

Discovered the Small Pox vaccine

Edward Jenner

200

Substance that slows the growth of microorganisms

antiseptic

200

used as medicine by primitive man

herbs and plants

200

Developed the 1st Sanitation system

Romans

200

act or process of dividing, taking apart

dissection

300
Discovered Pasteurization

Louis Pasteur


300

Loss of feeling or sensation

anesthesia

300

pertaining to old age

geriatric

300

allow doctors to see inside the body

X-rays

300
Promoted the education of nurses

Florence Nightingale

400

Father of Medicine

Hippocrates

400

act of watching

observation
400

not involving penetration of the skin

noninvasive

400
First person to use an antiseptic

Joseph Lister

400

First Public Health Nurse; established visiting nurse services in New York

Lillian Wald

500

Father of Psychiatry

Sigmund Freud

500

One that receives

Recipient

500

sterile condition; free from germs

asepsis

500

Discovered the Polio virus

Jonas Salk

500

Served as a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War.  Also established the American Red Cross

Clara Barton

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