Women Breakthroughs
American Nurse who started the American Red Cross
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Who is Clara Barton?
Discovered x-rays in 1895.
Who is Wilhelm Roentgen?
Ancient people thought to be the cause of disease and illness.
What are supernatural spirits and demons?
Began using disinfectant and antiseptics during surgery.
Who is Joseph Lister?
The main method used to treat illness and disease in the Dark Ages.
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What are monks and priests stressing prayers?
First female physician in the United States.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Discovered penicillin in 1928.
Who is Sir Alexander Fleming?
Earliest culture of people known to maintain accurate health records.
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Who are the Egyptians?
Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria.
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Who is Louis Pasteur?
What was used to make many of the medications in the 17th century.
What are plants and herbs?
Woman Doctor who Improved Laser cataract surgery
Who is Patricia Bath?
Developed the polio vaccine in 1952.
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Who is Jonas Salk?
Historic period Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited.
What is the Dark Ages?
Artist who used dissection to draw the human body.
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Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Allowed physicians to listen to internal body sounds, which increased there knowledge on the human body.
What is the stethoscope?
Isolated radium in 1910.
Who is Marie Curie?
Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens.
Who is Robert Koch?
Which culture Began the public health and sanitation systems.
Who are the Romans?
Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart.
Who is William Harvey?
Allowed physicians to see organisms too small to be seen by the naked eye.
What is the microscope?
Founder of modern nursing during the Crimean War
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Developed a vaccine for small pox in 1796.
Who is Edward Jenner?
What culture used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion.
Who are the Chinese?
The father of medicine.
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Who is Hippocrates?
What procedure allowed doctors to view body organs and see connections between different systems in the body.
What is human dissection?