Intro to RC unit 1

Hippocrates

A Greek physician during the fifth and fourth century BC, also known as the father of medicine established a systemic approach to medicine based on observation and diagnosis he believed in 4 essential fluid/humor, which was phlegm blood yellow bile, black bile, and he also believed in important central elements earth, which was called dry fire, which was hot dry water, which was cold moist air, which was hot moist, hypocrites, believe that diseases were thought to be imbalance of these essential substances, and that the air is essential substance was that was distributed to the body in the heart

Aristotle

Greek philosopher in the first grade biologist made many scientific observations by performing experiments on animals

Galen

In anonymous in Asian in Asia, minor that believed inspired air contained a vital substance that somehow changed the blood through the heart

Leonardo da Vinci

Studied anatomy and determined that subatomic interaplural pressures inflated

Uesalius

Considered to be the founder of modern anatomy and performing human dissection and experimented in experimented with r resuscitation

William Harvey

Fully described the circulatory system

Robert Boyle

Published Boyle’s law discovering the relationship between volume and pressure of gas

Torricelli

Invented the barometer

John Fothergill

Advocated mouth to mouth resuscitation for drowning victims

Joseph Black

Describe properties of carbon dioxide

Carl Scheele

Performed lab synthesis of oxygen which he called “fire air”

Joseph Priestely

Described oxygen, called it “dephlogisticated air”

Charles

Described the relationship between gas, temp, and volume known as Charles law

Thomas beddoes

Began using oxygen to treat various conditions at his pneumatic institute in England “father of inhalation therapy”