UNIT 1 HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Hippocrates

The “Father of Medicine”. They had a hippocratic oath

Florence Nightingale

Began nursing school. She would check her patients during the night in the Crimean War

Egyptians

Imhotep identified and healed diseases, kept health records, made prosthentics, and began dentistry

Wilhelm Roentgen

Discovered x-rays

Benjamin Franklin

Invented bifocals and researched colds and lead poisoning

Christian Barnard

First physician to perform successful heart transplant

William Harvey

Documented circulation of blood

Clara Barton

Began American Red Cross

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

Invented the microscope

Rene Laennec

Invented the stethoscope in France

Jonas Salk

Discovered to use dead forms of polio as a vaccine

Edward Jenner

Invented the small pox vaccine

Alexander Fleming

Discovered pencilin

Joseph Lister

Used antiseptic during an operation in England

Robert Koch

Father of microbiology. Created 500+ microscopes

Sigmund Freud

Studied psychology and psychiatry. Father of psychology