People
The Father of Medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
Believed that the 4 humors regulated the body
What is the Ancient Roman period?
Anton van Leeuwenhoek improved this existing invention
What is the microscope?
Early pharmacists were known as this during the 16th and 17th centuries.
What are Apothecaries?
Pandemic disease that killed 3/4 of Europe and Asia's population
What is the bubonic plague/Black Death?
Founder of modern nursing; Established sanitary nursing units during Crimean War in 1854
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Stressed diet and and cleanliness as ways prevent disease; Treated illness with massage, art therapy, and herbal treatment
What is the Ancient Greek period?
Created the first mercury thermometer
Who is Gabriel Fahrenheit?
Banting & Best discovered and used this medicine to treat diabetes in 1922.
What is insulin?
Elizabeth Blackwell
Who is the first female U.S. physician?
Founded the American Red Cross in 1881.
Who is Clara Barton?
Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records
Who are the Ancient Egyptians?
Invented bifocals
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Decade of the first successful human liver, lung, and heart transplants.
What is 1960's?
Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for this virus in 1952.
What is polio?
Proved microorganisms caused disease; Created "pasteurization" of milk to kill bacteria
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Monks and priests used prayer to treat illness and disease
What is the Dark Ages?
Rene Laennec's invention
What is the stethoscope?
2014 - Surgeons from the Netherlands 3-D printed and transplanted this body part
What is the skull?
1865 - First to use disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery
Who is Joseph Lister?
Developed the smallpox vaccine, the 1st successful vaccine, in 1796
Who is Edward Jenner?
Exorcism (driving out evil spirits) was commonly performed to treat illness
What is Primitive Times?
The first anatomy book was published during this period
What is the Renaissance period?
Discovered Penicillin (the first antibiotic) in 1928
Who is Sir Alexander Fleming?
Used animal gut for suture material in the Middle Ages
Who is Rhaze (al-Razi)?