Intro to Imaging Test 2 Important people

History is medicine/radiography/sonography

Confucius

Forbade Human Dissection

Hippocrates

Father of Medicine

Leonardo de Vinci

Explored Human Anatomy Through Dissection

Andreas Vesalius

Father of Anatomy

Paracelsus

Father of Pharmacology

William Harvey

Discovered cirrulation of blood in the body

Galileo

Laws of Motion

Issac Newton

Gravity/Laws of Motion

Stephen Hales

First to measure Blood Pressure and demonstrate blood circulation

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

Father of Pathology

William Hunter

Founded the First Medical School in London (the great windmill street school of anatomy)

Rene Theophile Ityacinthe Laennec

Invented the stethoscope

Joseph Lister

Discovered that bacteria was the origin of disease and infection

Louis Pasteur

Discovered that heating food killed bacteria and slowed decay / germ theory

Ignaz Semmelweis

Discovered that hand washing could prevent disease

Major Walter Reed

Discovered yellow fever

Paul Ehrlich

Father of Chemotherapy

Able, Rowntree, and Turner

Created the first artifical Kidney that led to dialysis

Watson and Crick

Discovered that DNA molecules were a double helix

Christian Barnard

First successful heart transplant

Jonas Salk

Salk vaccine - eliminated Polio