fhs important people

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)

Published first anatomy book

Zacharias Janssen (1590)

invented the first microscope

Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)

Invented the microscope in 1666

Benjamin Franklin

developed bifocals, colds could be passed from person to person

Edward Jenner (1796)

smallpox vaccination in 1796

John Hunter (1728-1793)

Founder of scientific surgery, tracheostomy

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

Founder of modern nursing

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

father of bacteriology, microorganisms cause disease, discovered pasteurization, rabies vaccine

Joseph Lister (1860s)

1. Used a disinfectant (phenol) to clean wounds, surgical dressings and instruments 2. Large decrease in wound infections 3. Concept of Asepsis (lack of germs) finally accepted

Hippocrates (460-377 BC)

Father of medicine

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)

First female physician

Clara Barton (1821-1912)

Developed the American Red Cross in 1881

Robert Koch (1876)

proved that a bacterium causes anthrax and provided the experimental steps, Koch's postulates, to prove that a specific microbe causes a specific disease

Wilhelm Roentgen (1895)

discovered x-rays

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

founder of psychoanalysis, a controversial theory about the workings of the unconscious mind

Salk and Sabin

Polio vaccine

Crick and Watson

discovered the structure of DNA

Christian Barnard (1922-2001)

Performed first successful heart transplant in 1968

Ben Carson (1951-present)

Famous for his surgeries to separate Siamese twins