Dynamics of healthcare famous people and time

Andreas Vesalius

detailed information on the human body through dissection and wrote the first comprehensive book on anatomy

Edward Jenner

first successful smallpox vaccine and coined the term vaccination

Hippocrates

father of medicine, prognosis and rejected the idea that illnesses were caused by supernatural forces, hippocratic oath

Sir Joseph Lister

used disinfectants and antiseptics in surgery to prevent infection

Sigmund Freud

studies formed the basis for psychology and psychiatry, father of psychoanalysis

Louis Pasteur

theory that germs cause infectious disease and that pasteurized milk kills bacteria, anthrax, and rabies

Avicenna

canon of medicine in medieval periods which explained many diseases and set standards

Rene Larennec

created first version of stethoscope by rolling paper into a tube to use as a tunnel to put his ear up on to hear internal sounds

Sir Humphrey Davy

recommends use of nitrous oxide or laughing gas as an anesthetic in minor surgeries

Alexander Flemming

discovered penicillin, an antibiotic

Printing press

in the renaissance, this further progressed the way we learned, by precision and helped distribute information

Salk and Sabin

discovered polio vaccine

NASA

MRI, CT scan, chromosome analysis to prevent diseases in infants, balloon angioplasty alternates, electron microscope

Crick and Watson

described the structure of DNA

Zacharias Janssen

invented microscope for microscopic particles

MASH

Mobile Army Surgical Hospital used in Korean war combat

John Hopps

develops first cardiac pacemaker

William Harvey

described circulation of blood to and from the heart

Robert Koch

father of microbiology, TB, Cholera, Anthrax, did further work with germ theory

Dolly the sheep

she was cloned from an adult sheep stem cell that made a new baby sheep

Christian Bernard

performed the first heart transplant

Alec Jeffreys

develops DNA fingerprinting

The Renaissance Period

plagues/pandemics/printing press/book of anatomy by Andreas Vesalius

Prehistoric Times

trepanation drilling holes in head technique, less spread of disease due to small communities and nomadic lifestyles

The Medieval Times

canon of medicine by Avicenna, custodial care; christians not suitable to be in medicine because of the belief that only God can heal, herbal mixtures, evil spirits caused disease, fall of roman empire

Ancient Times

Egyptians (washing shaving), Greeks (Hippocrates prognosis), Romans (preventative medicine, aqueducts, sewage systems), China (acupuncture, herbs, pulse)

Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch

invented the sphygmomanometer

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

invented the first modern practical mercury thermometer

Florence Nightingale

Considered to be the Founder of Modern Nursing, Improved standards of hygiene and sanitation for medical care.