Health Science-Chapter 1- VIPS in health care

The father of medicine

hippocrates

Physicain who believed the body is regulated by four fluids or humors

Claudis Galen

Artist who used dissection to draw the human body

Leonardo Da vinci

An arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material

Rhazes

Published first anatomy book

Andreas Vesalius

Developed a vaccine for smallpox 1796

Edward Jenner

Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart

William Harvey

Created the first mercury thermometer

Gabriel Fahrenheit

Called the father of modern surgery

Ambrose pare

Invented the microscope

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

Established the patterns of heredity

Gregory Mendel

Discovedred X-rays in 1895

William Roentgen

Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria

Louis pasteur

Founder of modern nursing

Florence nightingale

Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery

joseph lister

ISolated radium in 1910

Marie curie

Discovered penicillin in 1928

sir alexander fleming

Developed the polio vaccine in 1952

Jonas salk

Performed the first successful heart transplant

Christian Barnard

Described how DNA carries genetic material

Francis Crick & James Watson