Key people pt. 1
Who was the founder of medicine?
Hippocrates
Who created the smallpox vaccine?
Edward Jenner
Who pioneered preventative medicine, used carbolic acid to kill germs, and developed an antiseptic technique?
Joseph Lister
Who discovered the antibiotic, penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
Who was the father of anatomy and wrote the first anatomy book?
Andreas Vesalius
Who created the first stethoscope?
Rene Laennec
Who was the founder of the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
What 2 people discovered the structure of DNA?
Francis Crik & James Watson
Who pioneered the microscope and was also the founder of micro biology?
Anton van leewenhoek
Who was the first female MD in the U.S?
Elizabeth Blackwell
Who made the rabies and anthrax vaccine?
Robert Koch
Who made the tracheostomy?
John Hunter
Who invented one of the early microscopes?
Zacharias Jansen
Who was the founder of modern nursing, and invented the call bell system?
Florence nightingale
Who discovered x-rays?
Wilhelm Roentegen
Who performed the first human-human heart transplant?
Christiaan Barnard
Who invented bifocals?
Ben Franklin
Who found that microorganisms cause disease?
Luis Pasteur
Who was the founder of the psycho analysis theory?
Sigmund Freud
Who performed the first hemisphere to my and was the first to separate craniopagus twins?
Ben Carson