Dynamics of Healthcare Chapter One Important People

Andreas Vesalius

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

Andreas Vesalius

revealed detailed info on anatomy through dissection, in the book of anatomy

Edward Jenner

developed first vaccine for smallpox

Hippocrates

father of medicine, emphasized prognosis, hippocratic oath uses guidelines and regulations still in use today in medicine

Sir Joseph Lister

used disinfectants and antiseptics in surgery to prevent infection

Sigmund Freud

studies formed the basis for psychology and psychiatry

Louis Pasteur

theory that germs cause infectious disease and that pasteurized milk kills bacteria

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 being able to quickly copy papers instead of hand copying

Salk and Sabin

discovered polio vaccine

NASA

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

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

Dolly the sheep

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

Christian Bernard

performed the first heart transplant

Alec Jeffreys

develops DNA fingerprinting