Famous Females
British physician
First woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.
Elizabeth Blackwell
-medical asepsis (sterilization)
Joseph Lister
Illness caused by supernatural beings
Primitive Times
four body fluids called humours (black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, blood)
Cladius Galen
Civil War Nurse
Clara Barton
-germs cause disease; discouraged spread of disease in hospitals
Louis Pasteur
Second episode of bubonic plague; ⅓ of Europe’s population died
Middle Ages
”Father of Medicine” / Hippocratic Oath
Hippocrates
Founder of modern nursing
Florance Nightengale
”Savior of Mothers” saved many babies from puerperal (“childbed”) fever by suggesting hand washing between patients
Ignaz Semmelweis
First vaccination, anesthetics used for surgeries
Industrial Revolution
discovered penicillin (first antibiotic)
Alexander Fleming
Founded the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Created polio vaccine
Albert Sabin & Jonas Salk
X-rays, DNA, organ transplants, in vitro fertilization, vaccinations eliminate many viral diseases
Modern Era
First person to correctly describe blood circulation
William Harvey